Parents play a key role in the learning and development of their teenage drivers. We encourage parents to become actively involved in their son's or daughter's driving educational experience. Your involvement won't necessarily take a lot of time. However, you can provide them with the encouragement to learn about safety by offering helpful driving and safety suggestions, pointing out unsafe driving conditions whenever they exist, offering your own experiences that have made you a safer driver, and allowing them to later drive with you as much as possible while helping them to access and improve their driving ability. "A car is a three-thousand-pound loaded weapon," so please take your teen's driving experience very seriously and offer lots of encouragement and support. Your support will last a lifetime.

Every year approximately 45,000 Americans are killed tragically in automobile accidents. Many of those accidents could have been prevented with some of the defensive driving techniques that we cover in this course. We strongly recommend that the car your son or daughter eventually learns to drive in is the family's safest car, as the car your children drives often determines whether they will survive a collision Statistics indicate that most of us will get into an accident at some point during our lives. Please take this moment to visit the United States Government Car Crash Test Site, www.safercar.gov, to see whether the car(s) you have or a car you may be considering in the future has a high crash test rating (preferably five stars!). We cannot recommend a car, but we do recommend that you take a moment to learn about the potential of your car to save your life (and the life of your child) in the event of an accident.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) conducts thousands of crash safety tests every year to determine the crash survivabilty of various car models. The crash test data go back about 15 years, to include both new and used vehicles. Please visit and bookmark www.safercar.gov for this government crash test data. Recently, at an intersection near our corporate headquarters, a 20-year-old was killed in a low speed, side-impact collision. The police investigator later stated, "He would have survived if his car had been equipped with a side-impact bar." Safety starts even before our children get behind the wheel. And what better way to start than by visiting this fabulous government test site tonight with your son or daughter.

INFORMATION ABOUT OUR COURSE:

Our company was established over 30 years ago, and is one of the nation's largest driving and traffic safety companies. We have graduated close to 2 million drivers from our various education courses. The program your son or daughter is about to take is without a doubt the most outstanding driver education course available. It is also the first and largest course of its kind in the state. Our course is broken up into succinct and easy to complete sections; it has pertinent safety and driving information, and can be completed entirely online or via our book program. We offer outstanding customer service and technical support to help along the way. We even have live chat feature, available during normal business hours, that connects students to our Information Technology Department in order to ensure a trouble-free educational experience. We are confident that our course is accurate, informative, direct, and will provide a quality education that will last a lifetime.