You might have encountered this situation before: you’re driving along on a wet rainy day. Suddenly, the car in front stops, and as you swerve to avoid a collision, the steering wheel stops responding like it used to and the tires feel like they’re floating out from under you, and the car skids toward a median. What do you do?For the 11 students of DeKalb Technical College’s Law Enforcement Academy’s inaugural class, this is exactly the situation they’ve been trained to handle.For the past several weeks, they’ve been practicing driving through dangerous conditions on a Skid Car – a regular
Learning to stay in control with Skid Car training
DeKalb Tech Law Enforcement Academy students train with new technology