The Education Department is eagerly awaiting a proposal from the Transport Ministry on incorporating driving lessons in schools.

The proposed syllabus would see grade 11’s complete their year with a learner’s license and matriculate with their drivers.

The initiative would see under 500 000 pupils qualify annually and could also curb corruption.

The Basic Education Ministry’s Hope Mokgatlhe said Minister Angie Motshekga had yet to receive the framework.

“The Minister of Basic Education Mrs. Angie Motshekga is aware of this initiative and the minister is quite excited. She cannot wait to see what the content of this proposal is,” she said.

New legislation being introduced, will allow for any driving instructor that poses a significant threat to the safety of the general public to be suspended immediately.

The current legislation has to allow 45 days to investigate and remove an Approved Driving Instructor from the roads, during which time they can continue teaching pupils.

The new law which is supported by the Department for Transport and Driving Standards Agency was introduced by MP Willie Rennie. The new legislation has not been implemented to eradicate the majority as it is only in a few instances that an ADI does not provide tuition in a professional manner and it is in those circumstances that they will be suspended immediately, so as to improve the safety of learner drivers.

Simon Bush of Britannia Driving School said: “Allegations of unprofessional behaviour-by driving instructor’s clients-such as, poor service, providing short lessons and failing to attend appointments could lead to a suspension of a rogue instructor. The new law should not pose a threat to anyone that is doing their job properly and for the majority of driving instructors out there it will provide reassurance that those that are not providing tuition in a professional manner will be removed from the roads. ”

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DRIVERS will welcome a plan to put average speed cameras between junctions 3 and 4 of the M40, motoring bodies have said.

As they measure average speed between two points instead of at a single point, but an anti-speed camera group said lower speed was no guarantee of safety. The Highways Agency hopes to have the fixed cameras in place by April 2011. The motorway has no permanent devices in Bucks.

The cameras also helped smooth traffic flows, he said, as motorists drive at the same speed.There was a massive drop in crashes and injuries since temporary cameras were stationed on three bridges between junctions 2 and 4.

There were four and five deaths between November 2006 and October 2008 – and this fell to one in the following ten months – when cameras were first operating; ‘Serious’ smashes decreased from 17 to ten; ‘slight’ collisions from 117 to 62 with a consequent fall in injuries: 25 to 13 ‘serious’ and 221 to 100 ‘slight’.

THIS year’s Christmas anti-drink-drive campaign is being targeted at the “utterly thoughtless” minority who continue to put innocent people at risk.

But this minority still accounts for one sixth of all road deaths, Transport Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones has warned.

As the annual crackdown got under way today, he said: “This will be the third drink-drive campaign I have been involved with and, while I believe we are changing attitudes and helping to cut alcohol-related road deaths, there are still too many individuals and families whose lives are being devastated by drink-drive related injuries and fatalities.

“Although only a small minority of motorists continue to ignore the law in regard to drink-driving, this minority of irresponsible drivers still accounts for one sixth of all road deaths in this country.

“I urge these drivers to consider the effects that their behaviour may have on innocent victims and stop being so utterly thoughtless.”