Manitoba high school driver education course beneficial, MPI survey finds

Nine out of 10 students enrolled in the Manitoba Public Insurance High School Driver Education (HSDE) program said the course helped them to become more careful drivers, according to a Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI) survey.
The telephone survey, conducted last November, polled driver education students and their parents about the program they had recently completed.
The survey also found:
 • more than nine in 10 teen drivers agreed the course is valuable training for new drivers and would recommend it to their friends;
 • more than eight in 10 agree that young drivers who take the course are more skilled than young drivers who do not take the course; and
 • more than half agree that if they had not taken the course, they would have had more accidents by now.
Students in the program receive 34 hours of in-class instruction, eight hours of behind-the-wheel training and eight hours of in-car observation.