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Hi Sean, my son Jake was killed on Australia Day this year along with 2 of his mates due to an inexperienced driver who thought he could control a car that was obviously being driven to fast.

Its too late for my son but if we can get driver education, which should start in the home, and continue on in the school curriculum with a weekly lesson we can start to teach future generations so these futile and avoidable deaths dont happen to other families.

The Government is very quick to say "We need to do something to  stop this devastating road toll" after the fact, but when you read the articles in the papers all their comment's seem to end with " but we dont have the money to set up any sort of Driver Education".

It seems to me we are able to find money to help other countries when they have devastating disasters happen to them, which I dont disagree with, but surely if we are able to find the money for that we can find the money to put into our education system so we can help stop the sensless loss of life of our young future generations.

Hello Yvonne,

I completely agree. Personally, I believe the biggest reductions in the road toll over the next decade will come from improvements in driver education.

We need to make sure the politicians understand this.

If enough people here share the same view, it does give us something to work towards.

A friend of mine had two of his school mates killed as the result of drink driving in 08. This year another of his mates was killed riding his motorcycle. This guy Continues to do burnouts and last fortnight he drove home from the pub in his Holden GTS and plowed straight into a parked car (too much speed). People like this never learn. His father is a police officer.

My partner was at a property 500m away from the 2nd accident that happened in the Barossa valley last year. I was working in the barossa at the time with friends of the young man who passed and saw the impact of losing their two mates. I got home and told my partner there has been another accident, he then told me he was close by and the sounds that he heard.

I spend alot of my day trying to come up with a way to stop these things from happening but you can't police someones personality. South Australia has got some big issues with its drivers. Many people winge about how others drive and yet they continue to drive this way themselves. Punishment here is also lighter than in some of the other states.

I'm currently doing Police Studies. I want to educate young people. As said above the powers at be are not interested. I will continue to push for a solution.