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Unusual class teaches teens safe driving techniques

Teenagers get driving practice in a class that offers unusual situation training

March 22, 2001
Web posted at: 4:09 p.m. EST (2109 GMT)

(CNN) -- In California, about 400 teenagers are hitting the road to learn skidding, braking at high speeds and driving through obstacles -- all in the spirit of safe driving.

It's a driving school for teens, taught at Sears Point Raceway by professional drivers.

"If you get yourself in a situation, it teaches you how to get out of it," said Jason Wollman, one of the students in the program.

The instructors hope more practice handling a car through unusual situations can save teens from getting hurt or killed on the road.

 CNN's Rusty Dornin has more.

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