Discovery channel is on the look out for Canada's worst driver and their search includes a look at drivers in the Yorkton area.
Gearing up for the seventh season, Canada's Worst Driver aims to improve city streets one bad driver at a time. The hit show is currently seeking nominations for local motorists in desperate need of driver's training.
Why Yorkton? In the history of the show, only two of the nearly fifty candidates on the show have come from the province of Saskatchewan. To truly represent the entire country, producers are making a special request to Yorkton residents to send in their nominations for the seventh season of the show.
Those selected for the program will be flown to the Driver's Rehabilitation Centre in Ontario where they will undergo a series of in-car challenges designed to improve core driving skills such as merging, parallel parking and reversing. Canada's Worst Driver aspires to make Canadian roads safer by rehabilitating bad drivers from across the country.
"This is more than just a TV show. That's why it works. We take driver's training seriously, which means when you leave the driver's rehabilitation centre, you have truly improved behind the wheel," says host and writer Andrew Younghusband.
In each episode, one of the eight driving students selected for the show will graduate from the driver's rehabilitation centre, returning home with enhanced driving skills and newfound confidence.
"By helping the bad drivers, we're not only changing their lives, we're also changing viewers' lives. I know this because dozens of viewers have written me to say that they avoided accidents because of techniques they learned by watching our show" continues Younghusband.
Nominations can be submitted by email [email protected] or by phone 1-866-598-2591 from now until the end of March. Producers will be in Yorkton this April to meet with potential candidates.
For more information and to view past episodes of Canada's Worst Driver, visit www.worstdriver.ca.
