2019 Street Survival

WHAT:            Tire Rack Street Survival® Teen Driving School

WHERE:         Pittsburgh International Motorsports Complex, 201 Penndale Ext., Wampum, Pa 16157

WHEN:           Saturday September 7, 2019

SPONSOR:    Allegheny Chapter of the BMW Car Club of America

DETAILS:

Car crashes are the leading killer of American teens from ages 15 – 20, with more than 5,000 teens involved in a fatal crash each year, nearly 2,000 teen drivers killed and an additional 180,000 teens injured.

Simple driving errors, avoidable but common among inexperienced teens, cause the majority of fatal accidents.

• Tire Rack Street Survival® is a national driver education program that teaches teens the skills they need to stay alive behind the wheel.  Unlike traditional driver’s education programs based on classroom theory and simple maneuvers, the Tire Rack Street Survival®  program improves driver competence through hands-on experiences in real-world driving situations.
• Students will receive a short classroom session and then will learn, hands-on, how to manage everyday driving hazards, obstacles and challenges in a controlled environment on an advanced driving course to ultimately ‘arrive alive.’
• Students learn emergency braking and skid control, how to control unintended oversteer and understeer, and how to avoid accidents entirely. In addition to spending time in the driver’s seat of an 18-wheeler to fully comprehend its massive blind spots, teenagers witness the violent detonation of an air bag, which demonstrates the force of the explosive devices.
• Students are taught in their own cars, not specially prepared program vehicles, so the skills they learn can be directly translated to their daily driving experiences.Tire Rack Street Survival® challenges teenagers to understand how to control a vehicle, rather than just operate one.

Tire Rack Street Survival®  is open to licensed and permitted drivers ages 15 – 21.  Forms, schedules and more information can be found online at www.streetsurvival.org. The cost is $95 per student and some insurance companies offer premium discounts to graduates.

To learn more view Participant Testimonial:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trKWDq8rwdk

REGISTRATION:  https://tinyurl.com/AlleghenySS19

CONTACTS:

Chris Williams – Performance Driving Chairman – [email protected]

Greg Calvimontes – Registrar – [email protected]