LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The California Highway Patrol's Clear Lake Area office is offering traffic safety classes to teens this weekend and early in March.
The free two-hour “Start Smart” program will be presented to newly licensed and teenage drivers and their parents/guardians from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, at the CHP office, 5700 Live Oak Drive in Kelseyville.
Then, in early March, Start Smart will hit the road and head for the south county, where the class will be presented from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 4, in room 7 at Middletown High School, 20932 Big Canyon Road.
The program is designed to provide an interactive safe driving awareness class which will illustrate how poor choices behind the wheel of a car can affect the lives of numerous people.
Start Smart also focuses on responsibilities of newly licensed drivers, responsibilities of parents/guardians and collision avoidance techniques.
Lt. Hector Paredes, commander of the CHP Clear Lake Area, is putting increased emphasis on the program in an effort to save young lives.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 15 and 20 is motor vehicle collisions.
Paredes said such traffic collisions involving young, inexperienced drivers, are preventable.
The Start Smart program is aimed at helping newly licensed and future licensed teenage drivers understand the critical responsibilities of driving and to understand that accidents happen.
Space for the classes is limited.
For more information or to make reservations, call CHP Officer Kory Reynolds at 707-279-0103.
CHP plans upcoming 'Start Smart' classes for teen drivers
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