Free driving lessons for teenagers happening this weekend in Windsor [Video]

The Ford Driving Skills for Life event returns to the WFCU Centre this weekend.

During the three-hour, in-car lesson, new drivers will experience and learn from four different scenarios:

• Emergency lane changes
• Over-steering
• Distracted driving
• Impaired driving

“Young drivers have a higher probability of being in an automobile accident,” Dave Grimmie program manager in Canada told CTV News in an interview Thursday. “And that is because of inexperience and poor decision-making.”

Grimmie says their instructors are in the vehicle with the driver, on a closed course at low speeds. Windsor police will also be on hand.

They use ‘fatal vision goggles’ to help teenagers learn what it’s like to be behind the wheel after consuming alcohol or drugs.

“What’s great about these goggles is (they) impair your physical motor skills but it doesn’t impair logic,” Grimmie says.

Instructors will also allow teenagers to have a cellphone in their hand and ask them to send a text …