With school out for summer, you might begin to see more high-school-age drivers taking to the streets, and that could mean more distracted drivers looking at their phones instead of the road ahead.
Thursday, around 180 driver's ed students at Butte High School got a taste of just how dangerous distracted driving can really be.
Crashing into traffic cones and running over stuffed animals are just some of the simulated dangers in the distracted driving program, put together by the St. James Healthcare trauma clinic, as students attempted to navigate a course with a golf cart while texting a friend or wearing beer goggles.
But replace that traffic cone with a pedestrian or those beer goggles with a night of drinking, and it's easy to see how these silly situations can become very grave very quickly.