The program gets young people involved in teaching safe driving skills to their peers. State officials believe the program contributed to a big drop in the number of teen highway fatalities.
"The worst thing that can possibly happen is for a child to graduate high school and to have the last page of their yearbook to be a dedication page to the student who didn't make it because they were involved in an accident," said Clayton Harris, IDOT chief-of-staff.
Teen driving fatalities in the first six months of 2008 dropped by 52 percent over the same period last year.
