AMARILLO, TX -- In order to improve road safety and possibly save lives, local high school students teamed up with a local organization to ask students to take a pledge at an assembly today.
River Road High School students , in the school club DECA, teamed up with the local organization, Share the ROAD!, to ask students to pledge to not text and talk while driving.
"If we can successfully reach out to these young people here at River Road and other schools to get them to stop using their cell phones and texting behind the wheel of their car, then they in turn can exert some peer pressure on other students at school," said Kenneth Graham, Share the ROAD! President.
That's exactly why DECA students will be the driving force behind this movement.
"Whenever we sit through an assembly and it's just adults saying that its something we should or shouldn't do it's kind of like yea they're probably right, but nobody wants to listen whenever they're teenagers. So, if your friends start saying -- maybe we shouldn't text and drive, maybe we should try to do this -- then it's more like peer pressure -- the positive peer pressure to want to do it," said Shelby Harriss, River Road High School DECA Student.
Harriss says all this work is worth if at least one person decides not to use their phone and drive.
"We really wanted to make a difference and if we can change one person or even a group of peoples opinion on it, then that can start a chain reaction and make a difference in our community,"
All River Road High students were invited to take the pledge, and if they did they received a wrist band and window decal.
River Road is the first high school to team up with Share the ROAD!.
