Volkswagen Chattanooga, celebrating a four-year partnership with the Accident Avoidance Workshops, will make available financial contributions to all public and private high schools through this upcoming fall’s classic. As is always the case, anytime anyone registers and says they heard about it from a school mailing, the school will receive a $10 stipend. This fall, in hopes of encouraging local media to assist in the promotion of this event, stipends will be issues to the schools on behalf of the news/media source from which parents claim they heard about the event.
The Workshops, described as "the most effective driver training program of its kind," are an eight-hour, parent-participation program in which students drive their own cars, and get personal training on the abilities and limitations of not just the vehicle, but the driver as well.
The Accident Avoidance Workshops is currently available to the Southeast from Tennessee’s Bristol Motor Speedway, North Carolina’s Charlotte Motor Speedway, Georgia’s Atlanta Motor Speedway and Atlanta Dragway, down to Sebring International Raceway in Florida.
Officials said graduates of the workshops enjoy the benefit of statistically reducing their crash rates by more than 75 percent.
The next Accident Avoidance Workshops at Volkswagen Chattanooga will take place Nov.
20-22, and the tuition will be reduced from $429 per parent/student team, to $287 for this final event in 2015. Space is limited.
For more information: www.AccidentAvoidanceWorkshops.org or call 770-262-7009.