Some college students got a lesson about drunk driving on Thursday morning.
A PennDOT safety officer and local cops were at Lock Haven University’s Clearfield campus for Saint Patrick’s Day, where students got to try on “drunk goggles” while trying to walk in a straight line, and also used a special driving simulator.
“I couldn’t even tell if i was on the line. I thought I was on the line and I wasn’t even close,” says freshman Samantha Foster, who tried the goggles.
“A drunk driver doing 60 miles an hour, which was 20 miles over the posted speed limit, slammed into me while I was making a left hand turn and I was in a coma and life-flighted to the hospital and it was serious. My daughter is here, I’m here and ironically I ended up in this position years later,” says PA DUI Association law enforcement liaison Cathy Tress.
Tress says she was also pregnant during that daytime crash in Beaver County in 1989.
She encourages people to make plans to get home safely before they go out.