Fresno teens hear of the dangers of drinking and driving first hand

FRESNO, Calif. (KGPE) - Mothers Against Drunk Driving wants teens to cognize the real-life dangers of impaired driving.

The radical stopped astatine Fresno's McLane High School connected Monday due to the fact that they accidental with the vacation season, it is much important present to get their connection crossed to teens.

MADD brought Manual Russ arsenic a impermanent talker to the event. Russ is simply a unfortunate and subsister of a drunk driver. He was deed head-on by a drunk operator arsenic helium drove to enactment astatine 1 a.m. successful September of 2018.

An incidental that dramatically changed his life.

"It near maine wholly unsighted and an amputee. And beauteous overmuch my face, my full near broadside of my assemblage is afloat of hardware, and I can't pronounce it, but cadaver bones. And you cognize 1 of the archetypal things erstwhile I came retired of the coma and recovered retired what was going on, 1 of the archetypal things that went done my caput was, 'I person to get my communicative retired determination and assistance people,'" said Russ.

Russ encourages those who are going to portion to beryllium liable and person a backup program similar a rideshare, taxi oregon program to enactment the night.

MADD wants young radical to cognize the powerfulness they person to marque astute decisions.