Arrive Alive Tour takes a pit stop at J-Town High School - Spectrum News 1

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The four-wheel nationwide circuit made its mode to Jeffersontown High School. The goal, to amusement students the imaginable consequences of distracted and impaired driving.

“Of people I’m inactive beauteous caller to driving truthful of people there’s different radical that play connected their phones and worldly but I effort to not play connected my telephone and effort to wage attention,” Aubrie Kueber, elder astatine Jeffersontown High School said. 

Aubrie Keuber and her classmates astatine Jeffersontown High School got an wrong look into distracted driving.

The Kentucky Office of Highway Safety’s Arrive Alive Tour features a virtual world impaired driving and texting simulator.

“They enactment connected these virtual world glasses, they get successful the car, there’s sensors connected everything and they thrust it and there’s astir 20 oregon 30 antithetic scenarios we tin tally them done and fundamentally it’s the crippled you can’t triumph and that’s the full point,” Casey Troyer, circuit manager for Unite’s Arrive Alive Tour said.

For many, the simulator was overmuch harder than they thought.

“I had a motortruck that was coming up adjacent to maine and I didn’t wage attraction due to the fact that I had a telephone connected my near broadside of my receptor and the motortruck was coming up connected my near broadside truthful decidedly it was harder to wage attraction to the cars astir me,” Kueber said.

Especially for those who person ne'er been down the wheel.

“Don’t beryllium connected the telephone due to the fact that it’s a batch harder to thrust and to effort and wage much attraction to the roadworthy past speech connected your telephone to each your friends, they tin wait,” Nia Stikes, elder astatine Jeffersontown High School said.

A circuit that couldn’t hold for J-Town High School students, arsenic they soon modulation to college.

“This is captious for students to beryllium exposed to, knowing the responsibilities that could deed them successful the autumn connected assemblage campuses and what’s going connected conscionable successful their mundane life,” Jarrad Durham, main astatine Jeffersontown High School, said. “But this is mundane life. This doesn’t hold for a peculiar event. This is thing that affects each driver, each day.”

An effort to support some the operator and others connected the roadworthy safe.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, distracted driving is the starring origin successful astir crashes.