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AAA Opens New Driver Training School in Hamden

AAA Southern New England is now offering the mandatory eight-hour Safe Driving driver training classes for both teens and adults, who are seeking Connecticut drivers licenses.

 

The eight-hour class for teens, which fulfills the minimum state requirement to receive a driver’s license, includes the mandatory two-hour parent/guardian portion for individuals younger than 18.

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The adult eight-hour class is offered to students 18 years and older, who either may have waited to obtain their driver’s license, is an experienced international license holder who needs a Connecticut licenses or is an adult who never learned to drive.

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Both classes cover the dangers of operating a vehicle under the influence of drugs and alcohol; and focuses on safe driving skills including the dangers of texting and electronic use while driving. The two-hour parent class also covers the state’s graduated driver law requirements.

 

Beginning in July, classes will be conducted at 35 Worth Avenue, Hamden and are open to AAA members and non-members. Register by calling 1-855-222-1050 or visiting www.aaa.com/drivertraining.  The fee is $125. Graduates of the 8-hour Safe Driving Teen Class, whose parents are AAA members, will receive a free Associate level AAA membership.

 

Adult (18+)  classes will be conducted between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. on these dates: July 17 and 18; August 7 and 8; and August 14 and 15.

 

Teen classes will be conducted between 9 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on these dates: July 20 and 27; August 3 and 10; and August 17 and 24.

 

The CT Department of Motor Vehicles granted AAA Southern New England a license to operate a driving school in May.  Eventually, classes will expand to other areas of AAA Southern New England’s club territory in New Haven, Fairfield and Litchfield Counties

 

AAA Southern New England has 46 offices in Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Massachusetts and provides more than 3.5 million members with travel, insurance, finance, and auto-related services such as driver’s license renewals, international driving permits and theme park and movie ticket sales. In CT, the territory includes Fairfield, New Haven, and Litchfield Counties.

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