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Collinsville,
Oklahoma
April
8, 2011
Victims
Impact CHS Assembly
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Personal
Impacts of Drinking & Driving Presented To Students
A Week Before Prom
Also
Drug Abuse Tragedy
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Copyright 2011 -- Collinsville, Oklahoma
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John
from Pryor detailed his years of poor choices with alcohol and drugs including
trying to ignore the alcohol related death of two of his friends. It wasn't
until a drunk driver killed his sister that he changed his ways. His hope is
that these CHS kids will make better choices than he did during his teen years
without waiting for multiple disasters from which there are no second chances.
The
Victims' Impact Panel of Oklahoma, Inc. (VIP) presented a video of lives cut
short by drinking & driving and provided the speakers with personal stories
of impact.
State
Trooper Porter presented his view as both a trooper responsing to fatal accidents
as well as losing his own brother to an alcohol related traffic death.
Cody's Mom detailed the tragic
path he followed to his death from overdose of perscription drugs combined with
alcohol. She found out later that another student's parents had allowed drug
use and drinking in their home which contributed to her teenager's death. She
is trying to stiffen Oklahoma's laws to discourage "social
hosting" abuse.
Bringing
the message even closer to home in Collinsville ... CHS senior Beth Ruddle read
a "goodbye letter" she might have wished to write if she had been
killed in a traffic accident. Beth was injured in an accident that killed her
friend Seth (about 6 months ago in Oct. 2010). Morgan Roberts read a letter
she might have written if Beth had died.
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