River Region Times

On this past Wednesday, the Lowndes County Sheriff's had the pleasure to help facilitate Fatal Vision day at Lowndes Academy. 

The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) hope to change these statistics through the Fatal Vision Program, which educates high school students on dangers of driving under the influence and distracted driving.  In the program, supervised students drive a small utility vehicle through a course lined by traffic cones while wearing special goggles that simulate the impaired vision of someone who is drunk. The drivers are rated on the number of cones struck by the vehicle. Students also get put through standardized field sobriety tests that show the effects of different drugs have on their mental abilities. 

Participants included:

Lowndes County Blackbelt Coalition for Underage Drinking

Lowndes County Lawyer’s Association

Judge Adrian Johnson

Second Judicial District Attorney’s Office

Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA)

Lowndes County Board of Education

Council on Substance Abuse (COSA)

Reclamation Center of Alabama

TRIO

Alabama Department of Transportation

Alabama Beverage Control Board

Lowndes County Coroner Terrell Means

Lowndes County Family Guidance Center

Lowndes County Department of Human Resources

Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office

Fort Deposit Police Department

Hayneville Police Department

White Hall Police Department

Local Volunteer Fire Departments

Fatal Vision Day Committee

State Farm’s Ur Keys 2 Dr

We would like to give a a special thanks to Juvenile Probation Officer Keisha Lee for giving us the opportunity to be apart of this event. 

The next event will be held the Calhoun High School on March 15th.

Original source can be found here.