SCOTT COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) — The Georgetown Police Department is taking a proactive approach to teen driver safety with a new educational program aimed at reducing Kentucky's troubling teenage driving fatality statistics.

"A young person getting their license, this is their first taste really of freedom that they're getting," said Captain Lewis Crump.

The class focuses on teaching teens how traffic stops work.

"One of our main goals is for them to feel more comfortable around a police officer, and understand if they do get pulled over, they don't need to be nervous," said Sergeant Elliot Hutton, with the traffic unit. "We're just normal humans," said Sergeant Elliott Hutton, with the traffic unit.

"That way the young driver can be prepared," Crump said. "That anxiety is gone. They know

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