Safe driving at Paso Robles High School

Stephanie Reiswig, killed in a 2005 car accident, is memorialized. PRHS students sign pledges stating that they won’t text, tweet or drink and drive. Above all else, they must promise to wear their seatbelts at all times. Students who took the pledge were entered into a drawing for a free ipad. Photos by Hayley Thomas.

PASO ROBLES — It’s tragic, but true: Over the past nine years, 18 Paso Robles area teens and young adults have lost their lives in car accidents.

With this in mind, more than 600 Paso Robles High School students took a somber safe driving pledge during a heartfelt and eye-opening presentation held in the school’s parking lot Dec. 3 through 5.

The exhibit showed real-life mangled cars, chalk-outlined bodies on the pavement, deployed airbags and shattered windshield glass.

For the complete article see the 12-07-2012 issue.

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