Tauranga pilot safe driving course
PA Tauranga Baypark Speedway will be the test ground for a driving safety course designed to cut the road toll by half.
By next June an obstacle course will be set up to test the driving Skill of drivers in hazardous situations, and teach them to remain calm in emergencies. The steering committee for the new Masters Driving Diploma said that if the course was adopted nationally the road toll could be cut by half. Its aim was to stamp out hazardous driving habits. New Zealand drivers were among the most aggressive and non-skilled in the world, it said. The chairman of the committee, Mr Peter Rae of the Road Transport Association in Tauranga, said the Bay of Plenty would be used as a test ground to prove that the courses should be implemented nationally and be made compulsory. A skid pan would be built on the Baypark entrance road to teach drivers to automatically cope with skidding and sliding, Mr Rae said. Simulated broken windscreens and mock road works and pedestrian mannikins would be other hazards set up to test the skill's of the driver.
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