Defensive Driving Course – Six (6) Hour – National Safety Council – Syracuse, NY
The National Safety Council (NSC) Defensive Driving Course, recognized for its leading-edge curriculum, delivers the most compelling and proven defensive driving techniques and collision prevention strategies.
NSC Defensive Driving Courses teach drivers how to recognize and react to immediate and potential hazardous driving situations and conditions. Our instructor-led, classroom courses provide collision prevention strategies and defensive driving techniques that focus on behavior, judgement, decision making and consequences.
These highly interactive courses will help influence drivers to make positive choices to improve driving behaviors and attitudes and encourage respectful and lawful decisions to avoid motor vehicle incidents and decrease traffic violations.
This course has been approved by the New York Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) under the NY Point and Insurance Reduction Program (PIRP). Under PIRP, drivers completing the DDC through one of our NSC approved delivery agencies are eligible for:
- A motor vehicle liability insurance premium discount of no less than 10% each year, for three years, on the premiums for all vehicles of which the graduate is listed as the principal operator.
- Up to four violation points reduced from the total accumulation on the driver record during the 18-month period prior to DDC completion.



