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Fall is Street Survival Time in Iowa!
Posted by Fred Bell on August 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Every year in the September issue, we promote the upcoming local school of the Tire Rack® Street Survival teen driving safety course. For 2012, we have TWO schools happening in our area.
On September 30 at Southeast Polk Junior High, we’ll be working again with the Des Moines Valley SCCA folks to do our seventh school in central Iowa. And on Oct. 7, at Bettendorf High School, we are hosting the inaugural school in the Quad-Cities! Our club is being assisted on this one by Great River Region SCCA and Porsche Club of America members.
Street Survival is a great way for teens to learn a lot more about car control and accident avoidance than they ever saw in driver’s education. The course is aimed at ages 15-21; students must either have a driver’s license or have held a learner’s permit for at least half of the period required before licensing by the state of issue. Check out www.streetsurvival.org for more information about the course. The site includes a very good video showing how the training is done in the student’s car by a trained instructor on a closed course. Students learn what it feels like when the car is about to lose traction, and learn how to avoid or correct from such situations. It’s always an excellent prep for winter driving in Iowa.
Registration is on the Street Survival website for both events. For local information, contacts are registrars Rick Talbot in the Des Moines area (streetsurvival@dmvrscca.org) and Chuck Gipson in the Quad-Cities (qcssregistrar@gmail.com).
As always, we need your help in two ways: putting out the word to parents of potential students, and as volunteers at the events. Please contact friends, family, and co-workers who have young drivers in their households – the life you save may be theirs! And if you are interested in instructing or being a volunteer worker at the event, please contact the local registrar. This is a very worthwhile program, and the huge effort that it takes from club volunteers is more than repaid in the service we provide to our communities.
