Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Pune RTO to inspect, grade 335 driving schools in Pune, Pimpri Chinchwad

The Regional Transport Office (RTO) of Pune has decided to inspect motor driving schools in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad to verify the standard of training and infrastructure available at these schools.

The RTO will classify schools into 'A', 'B', 'C' and 'D' categories based on the observations and will issue notices to schools in categories 'C' and 'D', asking them to upgrade infrastructure to make training sessions more effective.

There are 335 schools registered in the twin cities - 236 in Pune and 99 in Pimpri Chinchwad. Besides these, 69 driving schools in Baramati, Solapur and Akluj jurisdictions will also undergo inspection. All the schools conduct basic training sessions for learners of two-wheelers, cars and heavy vehicles, who appear for the driving test for permanent licences.

Following similar inspections in 2012, the RTO had asked more than 30 schools to stop providing services, mainly because of poor quality of infrastructure and training standards. The transport office had also carried out inspections about a year ago, but only 70% schools were covered due to unavailability of inspectors and other reasons.

RTO officials have said that this time around, the inspections will be more extensive and in-depth. Inspectors will visit every school and note down their observations on various parameters. As per the Motor Vehicle Act, schools are expected to have basic facilities like adequate space, well equipped classrooms, sign boards, charts of road signs, trained instructors and equipped vehicles to give hands-on training to a learner.

The inspectors will also check if the training schools are functioning properly and maintain monthly log books and information on learners. If required, inspectors will test trainers on their knowledge and skills.

The officials said that during the last two inspections, it was observed that some schools had adopted good practices. They had provided advanced facilities like 'cut models' of vehicles to provide learners accurate knowledge of vehicles. Some schools have even installed simulators.

"We want every school to provide similar facilities to make sure that learners acquire top-level training. Good training will lead to safe driving, which will help curb road accidents," the officials said.

Meanwhile, the association of Pune motor driving schools said that the schools were ready to provide new facilities, but needed financial assistance to upgrade the infrastructure. A driving school owner said that not every school is financially strong to provide advanced facilities. The government should provide financial support to schools to install simulators, the owner said.

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Jayla Taylor got a sense Tuesday of what would happen if she ever got behind the wheel drunk.

    She knows now the result wouldn’t be pretty.

    The 15-year-old freshman from Chatham was one of hundreds of high school students who struggled through a drunken-driving simulation at the Prairie Capital Convention Center -- part of Drive for Tomorrow, a four-day joint effort by the Illinois Department of Transportation and Illinois State Police to promote safe driving and curb teen driving deaths.

    More than 2,200 students from 28 area high schools are expected to attend the event Tuesday through Friday at the center.

    Taylor said the simulation left an impression.

    “It was really difficult,” she remarked after squishing multiple orange cones on the course with a golf cart. “How could anyone drive that way?”

    Illinois is the only state that offers a four-day program like Drive for Tomorrow, according to state transportation officials. The event originated in southern Illinois and has expanded across the state.

    Students are divided into six groups and rotate through different activities that engage them in real-life driving situations.

    In addition to the drunken-driving simulation, students learn about the dangers of driving through work zones, the importance of staying out of a tractor-trailer's blind spot, the dangers of not wearing a seat belt, how to share the road with motorcycles and about other consequences of not driving safely.

    The event is brought to schools at no cost though the help of sponsors.

    Mike Kindhart, public information officer for Illinois State Police, said Drive for Tomorrow is a great way for students to learn good driving habits at an early age. This is the first year the program has been offered in Springfield.

    “When we put them in here in a hands-on-situation and they see the tragedy and other things that can happen, hopefully we can get that ‘oh wow’ situation out of them so they understand this can happen to them,” Kindhart said. “In real life, we don’t get to start over again.”

    Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of teenage deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    Statistics show that approximately seven teen motorists die every day in the U.S., and that teen drivers are three times as likely to be involved in a fatal accident as someone older than 20.

    In Illinois, teen traffic deaths have declined over the past decade. Preliminary data from IDOT shows that 66 teenagers between the ages of 16 and 19 were killed in 2014. That number is down from as high as 155 teens killed in automobile crashes in 2007.

Tuesday, 20 January 2015

Monroe City School Board votes to bring back the driver's education

Tonight the Monroe City School Board voted to bring back it's driver's education program but with some new updates.

Monroe students looking to get behind the wheel for the first time will soon have another option besides private driving schools.

Monroe high school driver's education came to a screeching halt about a year and half ago when the instructor passed away.

Neville High School principal Whitney Martin says it's time to bring it back.

"We get phone calls everyday of people who are having to look at other options for drivers ed," says Martin.

Superintendent Brent Vidrine says, "we spent the last year with the Department of Motor Vehicles and we have four people certified teachers now to do drivers ed across our three schools."

Vidrine says the program will be the same but prices will go up.

"Students have written thirty hour class and they are offered after school and on Saturdays. We have increased the price from 150 to 250 because it's what it costs us. We factor in our insurance cost, our personnel costs, also our cost to get the program certified we figured all that in while we have to pay our staff and that's how we came to the price.

Brett Lemoine is one of the certified driver's education teachers at Neville and his daughter is a freshman at Neville.

"The way it works is by the time your birthday comes you have to have your permit for so long in order to get your drivers license when your sixteen. My daughter had to start before and I have to take my daughter today for driving which is an inconvenience all the way out but Sam's and it's 400 dollars," says Lemoine.

Freshmen Catherine Street and Meghan Sherman say, "It would be easier, yeah it would be easier and then you'd be with more of your friends because it would be at school."

Vidrine says in the past, sixty to ninety students could take the course. Raising the price will allow for more drivers education teachers and more students.

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Learner driver claims Mercedes failed to give way before Sydney café crash

The learner driver who sent a Mercedes careening into a café in Sydney’s south today says the accident occurred because the other car failed to give way.

The L-plater was in the middle of his second ever driving lesson when he crashed the training car into a Mercedes on Tuffy Avenue in San Souci, sending it careening towards tables full of diners.
Three people travelling in the cars were taken to hospital by ambulance, but nobody in the café was hurt.

Owner Dimitri Lascaris said several of his workers and two tables of customers were outside at the time of the crash.

All of the injured were taken to St George Hospital, suffering only minor injuries including chest pain and cuts to the head.
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Thursday, 15 January 2015

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Sunday, 11 January 2015

Road Safety Week begins

Awareness programmes and a health check up for autorickshaw and taxi drivers marked the inaugural of the 26{+t}{+h}Road Safety Week observance in the city on Sunday. The theme for this year is “Safety is not just a slogan, it’s a way of life.”It began with the inaugural of a road safety awareness exhibition near the Central Bus Stand at Gandhipuram by Mayor P. Rajkumar. Corporation Commissioner K. Vijayakarthikeyan flagged off a road safety awareness campaign vehicle.District Collector Archana Patnaik flagged off an awareness rally from the bus stand. Close to 300 persons including school students, owners of driving schools, Transport Department personnel and autorickshaw drivers participated in it.The rally concluded at the Regional Transport Office (Central).Joint Transport Commissioner P. Muruganantham and Regional Transport Officers S. Munusamy (Central), P. Mani (East), N. Karthikeyan (North and Mettupalayam) and Jaganathan (Pollachi) were present.More than 350 autorickshaw and call taxi drivers and a few police personnel were screened in the health check up organised by the City Traffic Police.It was organised by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) and a private hospital, on the IMA premises.Tips to driversIMA president V. Shanmugasundaram and IMA office-bearers spoke about road safety and gave tips to drivers on protecting themselves and ensuring safety of commuters, the importance of wearing seat belts and helmets and to avoid using mobile phones, and drunken driving.The driver participants and the police also learnt more about first aid to be given to victims in the golden hour and how the ailing persons could be shifted to hospitals in a safe manner.Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic), T.K. Rajasekaran, spoke on safety measures to be followed by drivers.Transport authorities have planned to conduct the drive in two spells from January 11 to 13 and from January 18 to 21.However, the City Traffic Police will observe it from January 11 to 17.Celebrations in the next few days include cultural events by students and rewards for persons who obey traffic rules properly.

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Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Driving School Reforms in Shanghai

Driving schools in Shanghai are embracing a new pilot program for driver education that's proven both effective and popular among trainees.

The program makes it possible for learners to learn first and pay second, choose their trainers and preferable training time slots and so on.

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