Right Start is a privately-owned, in classroom, curriculum-based defensive driving school whose goal is to carry out its mission by providing its clients with the necessary knowledge and safe driving techniques and practices in order to prevent and decrease the driver statistical rate of traffic violations, collisions, accidental injuries, and fatalities on a local, state and national level.

Located in historic downtown Macon, Georgia, Right Start provides a comprehensive academic experience in an upscale, professional, safe and comfortable learning environment for its clients.

Right Start utilizes certified defensive driving course instructors to teach the curriculum of the National Safety Council’s Alive at 25, Defensive Driving Course 4 Hours, and Defensive Driving Course 6 Hours to clients from any of the five driving groups.

Upon completion of the Alive at 25 and Defensive Driving Course 4 Hours, clients may use the Certificate of Completion to fulfill approved court-ordered requirements for certain traffic violations. The Certificate of Completion for the Defensive Driving Course 4 Hours may be used for employee safety training credits for fleet drivers of vans, buses, cabs, and service and utility vehicles of small businesses and corporations, and the Certificate of Completion for the Defensive Driving Course 6 Hours may be used by clients to receive an insurance premium reduction from participating insurance companies and agents.

Right Start opened Friday, February 21, 2014 In Memory of Jeremy Dernard Israel, Sr. and the 4th Anniversary of his death. A former elementary school student of Right Start’s owner, Jeremy, at the age of 26, was traveling north on GA SR127 with several other bikers, when one of the bikers pulled off the side of the road near GA SR128 and made a U-turn, causing Jeremy to clip the back tire of the biker and ejecting from his motorcycle at about 4:15PM. Jeremy died shortly after the accident.