Norview students take part in hands-on teen safe-driving program
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Norview High students participated in a teen safe-driving event featuring impairment goggles, distracted-driving demonstrations and personal accounts from a traffic-safety advocacy group and an affected family member.
Norview High School students participated in an interactive teen safe-driving program that included field sobriety exercises using impairment goggles, demonstrations on sharing the road with truck drivers and a distracted-driving course.
The program, sponsored by Youth of Virginia Speak Out About Traffic Safety (YAVASO), combined hands-on displays with personal accounts about the consequences of reckless driving. A student who took part called the experience “very great and very beneficial,” saying the exercises showed “how chaotic people are in the car” and demonstrating the risks created by distractions.
A family member who spoke about a personal tragedy described the stakes of reckless driving: “So my son tragically was killed in 2019 by an unlicensed reckless teen driver. . . This was a 100% preventable,” the speaker said, adding that reckless driving endangers others as well as the driver.
The transcript frames the program as a safety education event; no formal district policy actions or votes are recorded in the excerpt.