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‘We need to make it mandatory’: DPS commissioner wants to see drivers ed required for Mississippi teens

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April 11, 2023

With data from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety showing that Mississippi is one of the nation's leaders in teen-driving fatalities, one public official is looking to require teenagers to pass a driver's education course prior to receiving a driver's license.

In a recent interview on The Gallo Show, Public Safety Commissioner Sean Tindell expressed a necessity to promote driver's education courses in Mississippi schools while also having law enforcement officers speak to students about traffic safety.

“We're going to start trying to make a big push on driver's education and getting back into the classrooms with Highway Patrol in schools talking about distracted driving and impaired driving,” Tindell said.

Not only would Tindell like to see driver's education courses encouraged and promoted within school systems that have them, but he would also like to see every educational entity in Mississippi host a student driving program. Additionally, he thinks it…

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By: Caleb Salers
Title: ‘We need to make it mandatory': DPS commissioner wants to see drivers ed required for Mississippi teens
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