Road safety charity Brake is proposing teaching driver safety in secondary schools as part of the national curriculum.

As an organisation, Brake can be a bit hardcore in its anti-car stance. I get where it's coming from - in the wrong hands the car is one hell of a lethal weapon - but it too often concentrates on the red herring of speed to the exclusion of the real enemy, bad driving.

However, this latest campaign doesn't go far enough. With the omnipresence of cars in our society, it's perhaps time that we realised that it's never too early to get the drivers of the future educated in the ways of the road.

Legoland has the right idea with its driving school. Kids line up to get into the classroom area, where they're shown a video on how to drive the (Fiat-branded) electric cars safely around the little street circuit outside.

They're then let loose to drive around - and it's amazing to see how quickly most of them get it, even at a very young age. I watched my six-year-old daughter stop at the dotted lines, overtake a slower car (clearly daddy's girl) and generally get around the little circuit safely.

So teaching kids in primary schools how cars should be driven safely - especially if it's taught in tandem with the usual lessons on how to cross the road, etc - can only improve their understanding of what it takes for all of us to stay safe on the road.

There would be one immediate benefit: the 'pester power' of these new back-seat drivers should help rein in some parents' bad driving. 'Dad, you didn't indicate there,' or 'Mum, it's mirror, signal, then manoeuvre.'

And as these youngsters start passing their tests in seven or eight years' time, we should start seeing accident rates drop - let's not forget that young drivers are statistically among the most likely to be involved in accidents.

We should all get behind this one: being able to drive safely is one of the most important life skills and it's time our education system recognised it.