Kennedy: Teens flock to car-control school - Chattanooga Times Free Press
A safer hand position on a car's steering wheel is 9 o'clock and 3 o'clock. That's one of the tips that 17-year-old Ooltewah High School student Scott Miles remembers from car-control school at the Atlanta Dragway in Commerce, Ga. Scott and his mother, Allie MacRae, recently attended the B. R. A. K. E. S. Teen Pro-Active... "Before, I was at four out of 10 in [driving] confidence," Scott says. It was started by professional drag racer Doug Herbert after his two sons, ages 17 and 12, were killed in a head-on collision in North Carolina in 2008. "It only took a moment to lose my two boys — one moment, one bad mistake," Herbert has said. The only thing I can do is try to help kids learn to drive safely. Every year in America about 6,000 families get the awful news that a teenager has been killed in an automobile accident. The statistics on teen driving are sobering. According to B. R. A. K. E. S. , 50 percent of teen drivers are involved in a traffic accident within the first few months of driving, and the chance of a teen experiencing at least one crash in the first three years of driving is 89. 2 percent. training is free, although a refundable $99 deposit is required to hold a spot at one of the roving driving schools. Source: www.timesfreepress.com
