Students learn the dangers of texting and driving
Posted September 14, 2012 4:49 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – You’re 23 times more likely to get into a crash if you’re texting behind the wheel. That’s one of the lessons teens and young adults learned at Douglas College today using a texting and driving simulator.
15-year-old Pinetree Secondary student Camilla was one of them.
“It is like, really really hard, I never thought it would be that hard,” she says. “You should never text and drive because you can die or something.”
“I killed two people,” says 15-year-old Keela. “I just saw them and they came out of nowhere. I couldn’t do both at once. It’s really really difficult.”
Participants were able to sign a pledge to not touch their phones in the car.
The simulator will be at the Port Moody Public Safety Fair tomorrow from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. at Port Moody City Hall.
Today’s event was sponsored by ICBC, Coquitlam RCMP, and Douglas College’s Coquitlam campus.
