Thursday Young Drivers

Garioch youth workers support a group of around 25 young people who meet in the old Tesco car park in Inverurie. Many of these young  people left school before they could receive any sort of driving education.

The workers provide hot drinks, information and advice to the young drivers. They have also had Grampian Police Road Traffic officers visit the group to go through some of their literature and DVDs on the effects of careless/dangerous driving.

Last year they ran a winter maintenance evening for the group in partnership with a local garage. They hope to run this again in the near future.

The young drivers have also been given the opportunity to experience driving a skid car, through a company based in Elgin, which aims to develop their skills when driving in poor weather conditions.

Some of the drivers will be given the opportunity to sit their advanced driving certificate.  We have recently secured funding to buy a purpose built vehicle to develop this project further.

A van has been purchased and is currently undergoing internal reconstruction to suit the project needs.

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