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Students Drive ‘Impaired’

EYEWEAR SIMULATES EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL

Posted: December 15, 2009 at 4:52 a.m.

Rogers High School student Heather Gatton, 16, drives a golf cart Monday wearing “drunk goggles” with Student Resource Officer Keith Foster at Rogers High School. The goggles simulate a blood alcohol level of 0.08 to 0.15, Foster said. The exercise was sponsored by the DECA Chapter at Rogers High to remind students the effects alcohol has to impair driving and to make wise choices during holiday vacation, said teacher Tom Woodruff.
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Rogers High School student Heather Gatton, 16, drives a golf cart Monday wearing “drunk goggles” with Student Resource Officer Keith Foster at Rogers High School. The goggles simulate a blood alcohol level of 0.08 to 0.15, Foster said. The exercise was sponsored by the DECA Chapter at Rogers High to remind students the effects alcohol has to impair driving and to make wise choices during holiday vacation, said teacher Tom Woodruff.

Wayne Henry, 16, didn’t hit any cones when he swerved a golf cart up and down a parking lot at Rogers High School.

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