Driving Instructor, student deaths spur national forum

By: Drivers.com staff
Date: 2003-10-08

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When a 14-year-old student lost control of a training vehicle, swerving into oncoming traffic and killing an instructor and two other students, the tragedy became a rallying call for a national forum on driver training. The National Transportation Safety Board has invited experts from across North America and around the world to a public forum in Washington on October 28 and 29.

"The best way to protect the lives of young drivers is to arm them with the right education, the right resources and the right restrictions to make them better, safer drivers," said NTSB Chairman Ellen G. Engleman. Representatives from the American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association, the Governors' Highway Safety Association, the Driving School Association of the Americas, the American Automobile Association, the National Safety Council, and state Departments of Education and Transportation will be among forum participants.

Discussions will focus on state programs, teaching standards and techniques, the use of simulators, driver education programs overseas, and current initiatives to improve the safety of young drivers.

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