Mothers Against Drunk Driving visits Sardis Secondary to address impaired driving

CHILLIWACK — The Upper Fraser Valley chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving always has work to do in convincing high school students about the dangers of impaired driving as grad parties and other commencement celebrations happen in June.

Not only are the financial and legal penalties associated with impaired driving steep and completely preventable, countless lives are lost every year to reckless decisions made by impaired and drunk drivers throughout Canada.

MADD’s Upper Fraser Valley chapter joined forces on Tuesday (May 30) with RCMP, Indigenous Policing Services, B.C. Emergency Health Services, ICBC, Chilliwack Taxi, and A.J. Towing for the second of three “Choose Your Ride” events, with Tuesday’s event taking place at Sardis Secondary.

MADD Canada Upper Fraser Valley says vehicles were brought in for students to have a visual on the possible ways home after a night out. Students were able to partake in road impairment trivia, use fatal vision goggles on a peddle kart track, and were given the opportunity to try a breathalyzer and do sobriety tests.