JEFFERSON, TX (KSLA) -
A national study showed about 1/4 of all car accidents in the last year were caused by texting and driving, and it's the most common reason reported for teen wrecks.
On Thursday along FM 2208 in Jefferson, TX drivers could see EMS workers put a high school student in an ambulance and shattered glass and a wrecked car on the side of the highway. The accident was make believe, but the images were meant to highlight a very real problem.
"It's very scary. It really is scary," said Jefferson High School teacher Terry Lee of the number of students she sees texting and driving.
JHS Junior, Erica Hill, and her business class decided to shoot a commercial to encourage their classmates to stop texting and driving.
"I have a friend, and I ride with her. She'll text the whole entire time. Like she's driving, look up, look down, look up, look down," said Hill.
A local business donated the car, and the class asked EMS and police to be a part of the commercial, too. The students wrote their own script, picked their own parts, and shot the commercial themselves.
"This goes along with my text, with what they should be learning, and so it's really beneficial," said Lee.
The class expects to release the commercial at the end of next week. The school will also ask students to sign a pledge not to text and drive.
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