MPI expands driver education in north
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Manitoba Public Insurance is partnering with the University College of the North to improve driver education in northern Manitoba, where there’s a disproportionate number of road fatalities.
Although it has six per cent of Manitoba’s population, it accounted for 13 per cent of fatalities from 2019 to 2021.
“Promoting road safety throughout Manitoba is a core part of MPI’s mandate,” said MPI chairman Ward Keith Tuesday.
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In-car and in-class training will be available in different towns and cities rather than one location.
“Better access to driver training and education is a critical way MPI can partner with communities in northern Manitoba to reduce the disproportionately high number of road fatalities this region experiences. MPI is proud to support UCN in eliminating barriers to Class 5 adult driver training,” he said in a statement.
In-car and in-class training will be available in different towns and cities rather than one location.
It will be open to people at different stages of the licensing process. Classes will be tailored to where learners are at in the process and availability will be dictated by demand.
The goal of the program is to give people the education needed to pass a Class 5 road test.
The first phase of the program, which will accept students 18 and older, will take place in Thompson, Flin Flon and The Pas. It’s expected at least 125 students will enroll in this portion of the program. Applications are currently being accepted.
In the second phase, to start in November, it will be expanded to Norway House, Wabowden and Cross Lake. The third phase is slated to begin in April of 2024, when the program will expand into more remote, but as yet unnamed, communities.
— Staff