'Save a Life' tour promotes safe driving habits at Holland Christian - HollandSentinel.com

HOLLAND — In an effort to beforehand harmless driving among its students, Holland Christian High School hosted the International "Save a Life" Tour this week. 

The circuit is “a comprehensive, high-impact" driving consciousness program, designed to show the “potentially deadly consequences resulting from mediocre choices" made by the relation of a centrifugal vehicle.

The circuit visited HCHS connected Friday, Jan. 27. Two driving simulators, 1 utilizing virtual reality, were made disposable for students to use. 

There are 330 students astatine Holland Christian High School who regularly thrust to campus, based connected parking permits issued by the school. Many of those students besides bring siblings to schoolhouse astatine different HC buildings. 

“One of our heavy hopes for our students is for each of them to flourish arsenic image-bearers of God and measurement into the calling that God has for them successful their lives,” wrote Principal Miles Colago successful a statement. “This programme is 1 small, but important, mode to bring attraction to a preventable mistake that could halt them successful their tracks.”

Friday’s lawsuit began with each students successful the schoolhouse gathering for an assembly to perceive astir the risks of distracted driving. For the remainder of the day, simulators were acceptable up successful the gym for classes to rotate through. 

The virtual world simulator illustrated the information of impaired driving by showing the effects intoxicant and drugs tin person connected a driver’s absorption time, centrifugal skills and judgment. On a 2nd simulator, students were provided a smartphone to nonstop and person texts portion driving and attempting to not crash. 

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Monitors were acceptable up truthful students could ticker their classmates effort to navigate the roads. Separate monitors showed videos related to impaired and distracted driving and the consequences of those actions.

— Contact newsman Mitchell Boatman astatine mboatman@hollandsentinel.com. Follow him connected Twitter @SentinelMitch.