Bay County Sheriff's Office Teen Driver Challenge

Free class! The Teen Driver Challenge course will provide you with the knowledge and hands-on experience to reduce your chances of being involved in a crash. Your attendance and participation in this training will provide you with life-saving skills and techniques, as well as education about the operation of a motor vehicle. You must have your own vehicle.

The course consists of a four-hour classroom session followed by an eight-hour driving session. This totals twelve hours for the entire course. Basic skills, actions and/or techniques are identified in the course where the teens need experience or training to safely operate a motor vehicle:

Classroom: Vehicle Dynamics/Human Factors/Responsibility/Liability/Drug and Alcohol Use/Aggressive Driving/Figure 8's.

Driving Exercise: Evasive Maneuvers/Threshold, Emergency Braking/Cornering/Backing/Off Road Recovery/Forward & Reverse Serpentine.

All classes are conducted under direct supervision of a certified high liability driving instructor. Instructors demonstrate the maneuver, and each student has one-on-one training from their instructor while driving the course.

Classes are limited to ten students per class. Each student must have a valid driver's license or valid learner's permit to participate in the training. The classroom portion of the training will be held at the Bay County Sheriff's Office, located at 3421 N. Hwy 77 Panama City, Florida 32405. The driving portion of the training is conducted at the Gulf Coast State College driving range, located at 637 County Road 2300, Panama City, Florida 32409.