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Log Book Run gives learner drivers more options


Teaching a learner driver is tricky especially on country roads where the terrain is often unpredictable.

But thanks to the Log Book Run, supervising drivers and their students can have access to a series of mapped-out, safe and challenging driving routes, advice from road safety experts and a chance to talk through common problems with other drivers and supervisors.

The first Log Book Run for the year will be held later this month.


City of Orange Traffic Committee Chair, Cr Russell Turner said the Log Book Runs were an invaluable tool when it came to helping learners to become successful, safe drivers.

“Many supervising drivers are parents and it has been a few decades since they were tested for their own licence,” Cr Turner said.

“The course gives them a refresher on road rules but also on how to teach a learner, how to help them cope with changing road conditions and obstacles.

“It’s free and the feedback from previous years has been overwhelmingly positive.”

The Log Book Run generally goes for about an hour and a half and takes participants on a range of roads from highways to local streets and dirt tracks.

It finishes with a road safety presentation.

As well as the planned Log Book Run event, students and their supervisors get a booklet with a range of courses planned in consultation with road safety experts that take them across the region with various degrees of difficulty.

“They are planned routes that are arranged from one to ten to build the skills of learner drivers,” Cr Turner said.

“A lot of parents just go down the same highways and streets. This way the students gets a broader range of experience, which will prepare them for all eventualities when they finally become licensed drivers.”

Orange and Cabonne Road Safety Officer Andrea Hamilton-Vaughan said the road toll involving young drivers was increasing and the Log book Run was ultimately designed to reduce that rate.

“Deaths of drivers aged 17-25 have risen from 53 per cent this year by the 27/07/2016 as compared to the same period in 2015. This program is designed to reduce the risk to young drivers by giving them practical tools to use when going solo,” she said.

The first Log Book Run is on Sunday August 14 and participants are asked to register online by going to www.orange.nsw.gov.au/logbookrun

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