Students taught Driving Skills For Life

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Students in Brampton have been driven to distraction – on purpose. It’s part of the Ford Driving Skills For Life program.

It is fun, but it comes with a serious message and that’s getting inexperienced drivers the skills they need and telling them what to avoid.

Fast and furious for a reason: Mississauga high school students are getting a supervised chance in how not to drive. Texting, speeding, swerving.

The Ford Driving Skills for Life programme takes young drivers out of the classroom and on to the courses. It shares safety skills newly licensed drivers need, like how to compensate for over-steering using these Mustangs modified to spin out every time.

As the program’s Dave Drimmie explains, “Inexperience breeds poor decision making. That’s what we are trying to instill here is good decision-making among our young drivers.”

CHCH News reporter David Brennan even got behind the wheel and tried texting his producer. A few pylons bit the dust and the message was unreadable.

The programme tackles drinking and driving by putting students in beer goggles, literally. They are meant to design being three times over the legal limit.

How did the students find the wild ride? Oneal Estivan told us “It was hard controlling. Getting drunk and driving is really hard.”

Crash rates are highest among teens in the first few hundred kilometres. With thousands of excited new drivers hitting the roads this summer, this kind of hands-on reality check may just keep them safe behind the wheel.

This is the second time they have run the programme in the GTHA. The good news is they are running tomorrow; there are still spots available.