SALEM — Judy Bonfert has been teaching driver education since 1983. “I got into it by accident,” she said. “I was hunting for a job at the time because my kids had grown up and a friend from Wellsville said I should apply for a driver’s ed lab aide. She mentioned it two times.” Bonfert, a 1963 Springfield High School (Jefferson County) graduate, applied, received a call for an interview and “learned a little bit about it.” There were 11 candidates and a 40-hour block of classroom and in-car training. She was selected along with one other full-time and two part-time teachers. “When I first started I didn’t think I wanted to do it. I was given a choice between a simulator or in-car. “When I did my first student I was hooked,” she said. The driver ed program was run out of the Wellsville School District, which employed her. “I was teaching in-car five and six days a week and only had a couple of schools, Columbiana, Leetonia, Southern Local and Wellsville.