Only a few schools now offer driver's education. But, the roads outside Rock Bridge High School might be safer thanks to a five thousand dollar grant from State Farm Insurance. It's called "Smart Driver".

"What we envision with this parternership is a service learning project to really get peers, teenager to teenager, to help them curb and stem the tide of accidents," said Jim Camoriano of State Farm Insurance. While this program may help to create safer teen drivers, it's still not the same as a driver education program.

"What it is, is a way for us to connect to our teenagers and to remind them of the dangers of distracted driving. Certainly there is an irony in that there are a lot more challenges with distracted now that we don't have drivers education programs," said Gwen Struchtemeyer of Rock Bridge High School.

Of the 523 school districts in Missouri, only 40 offer a driver's education program during the school year. "We hope this program grows so that it's not something that is just within the walls of this school but maybe even in our own community, because as you know whereever the roads go that is where problems go as well," said Camoriano.

School and company officials are drawing program plans now. More school systems offer driver's education in the summer.