Name:
NORTH MONTCO TECHNICAL CAREER CENTER
Driver’s Education--Mr. Norman
The Impact of Your Choice—Video
Main Points:
· We all expect to make it home.
· When you choose to drink and drive bad things can happen.
· Getting away without consequences repeatedly when drinking and driving eventually catches up to you.
· Alcohol related crashes cause far reaching affects for family, friends and communities.
· Drinking impairs decision making ability.
· Devastation of the family unit.
· Lifetime effects on relationships, physical, mental and financial health.
· On going psychological issues are affecting everyone directly or indirectly involved in these crashes.
· Coping with grieving.
· Making the choice to get into a car when the driver has been drinking will also have devastating consequences.
· You lose control of your choices when you get into the car of a driver that has been drinking.
· Ask yourself who else would be affected (i.e. the death of a friend, relative or innocent party).
· Think of the consequences before choosing to drink and drive.
· Once something bad happens it cannot be undone—there is no turning back.
· It can happen to anyone, anytime—A split second decision can impact lives forever.
· Are you prepared to pay that price?
· Every action has a consequence.
Questions:
1. What thoughts or feelings arise when you are out with friends and alcohol and/or drugs are involved?
2. What prevents you from calling for a ride?
3. The statement, “It won’t happen to me”. Why won’t it?
4. Peer Pressure is everywhere. What can you do…?
5. What other types of choices could have been made that could have prevented these crashes?
6. What were the common denominators within these crashes?
a. Drug Impairment (Alcohol)
b. No seat belts
c. Speed
7. In each story line, how many people are affected by the crash?
8. Who do you relate to in this film and why?
9. What are your individual commitments to make the right choices?
10. What steps can you take to prevent someone you know from making a bad choice?