Hey guys and gals, I want to share my latest and most worthwhile project with you. Since 1999 when I instructed for a teen defensive driving school in Colorado, my vision has been to start a similar school, it has been closed doors until January of this year when I approached Tage Evanson our fearless leader of NASA-AZ about teaming up with NASA, it just so happened that John Lindsey was in AZ at the time so Tage suggested we talk to John as well, John was very supportive and long story short, we had our first school one month later, Feb 12. Dan Maloney, owner of Arizona Motorsport Park (AMP) (road course) donated his 15 acre driving pad, Tage (NASA) donated his time and equipment to the cause and of course the AZ 944 family jumped at offering help, not only 944 spec, but spec 944 as well with many drivers from other run groups and other clubs. When you look at nearly 6,000 teens being killed every year and 350,000 injuries, there is no room for competition or pride, everybody just wants to help. Susan and I formed Team Safety Driving School, LLC pretty darn fast and have been working on a 501 c3 (non profit status) which takes a bit longer, we want to do this to keep the cost affordable for the students and this will allow us to receive donations which will be tax deductible for the donors. The first school was very successful, we had several positive comments from the parents and students, but mostly you could see the change in their abilities to turn a normal driving condition into an emergency or evasive maneuver. A couple of the kids had never driven a car before and by the end of the day, they were effectively thresh hold braking, braking and steering and doing accident avoidance moves at some pretty impressive speeds.
March 20 is our next school, if you are close enough and want to send a teen with a learners permit or getting ready to get a learners, let me know. If you have kids in your region and would like for us to come to you, let's talk about what is needed to put this on and we can maybe come to you.
One last statistic: 98.5% of all drivers have less than 10 minutes of accident avoidance training!!!!!! We can all help to change that, starting with new drivers!!!!
Your good thoughts and prayers to make this a success is most appreciated,
Norman
928 254 5400 - call with questions
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