Public Training: The BCBA presents the 6 Hour National Safety Council Defensive Driving Course
All Defensive Driving courses are held at the Bucks County Bar Association building located at 135 E. State St. in Doylestown. Courses take place on select Saturdays from 9 AM – 4 PM. All instruction is delivered inside the classroom. For availability visit our calendar, select the course you wish to attend, and complete the non-member registration.
There is a standard $100 fee that must be pre-paid during registration. Pre-registration is required; walk-ins are not permitted. Registered attendees must arrive on time; if you arrive late, you will be denied entry and will be required to reschedule your course. A certificate of completion will be awarded to all attendees upon completion of the course.
Defensive Driving is non-refundable. You may reschedule your course without paying a second fee by reaching out to the Bucks County Bar Association at least 48 hours before your course begins. Please note that all registrations for a course are final 48 hours before the class begins. No new registrations may be made for a course after this time, and all requests for rescheduling after this time will incur an additional fee.
What is Defensive Driving? Defensive Driving is driving to save lives, time and money, despite the conditions around you and the actions of others. Defensive Driving is the personal responsibility of everyone who operates or rides in a motor vehicle. Upon completion of the 10th Edition of the National Safety Council’s 6 Hour Defensive Driving Course, you should be able to:
- Identify your own personal driving behaviors and tendencies
- Identify behaviors that can be controlled and factors beyond a driver’s control
- Recognize that we share our roads with other drivers and identify your individual responsibilities when driving
- Recognize potential hazards when driving and make appropriate driving choices to avoid those hazards
- Identify risky driving behaviors that, statistically, lead to the most collisions and fatalities on U.S. roads
- Choose safe, responsible and respectful driving behaviors in different driving situations and conditions
- Evaluate your current driving choices and behaviors and identify alternative driving choices you can make
- Create a personal plan to make effective driving choices
About the Instructor: Michael Ciuffetelli has been a law enforcement officer since 2006. Ofc. Ciuffetelli is employed by the Upper Dublin Police Department in Montgomery County, PA where he is currently assigned to the Traffic Safety Unit. During his career he has investigated over 2,000 motor vehicle collisions and since 2017 has been the department’s lead serious/fatal crash investigator. Ofc.
Ciuffetelli is also a member of the Eastern Montgomery Regional Crash Team. Ofc. Ciuffetelli holds two degrees from the Rochester Institute of Technology and has had over 500+ hours of training in the area of technical crash investigation and reconstruction. He has testified as an expert in depositions and at trial in both Pennsylvania District Court and Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas. He has been a National
Safety Council Defensive Driving instructor with the BCBA since 2015.