Notre Dame High School will hold it's first Driver Safety Awareness Day, supported through MAKUS (Michael Appleby Keeping Us Safe), on Wednesday (March 13).
The program will be from 8:30 a.m. to 1:10 p.m. at the Notre Dame campus.
Officials said, "The Safety Awareness Day will be centered on students and their activities in automobiles, including drinking and driving. The main focus is to make students more aware of the risks they take while in a car (as the driver or as a passenger) and how to minimize these risks to be safe.
"Working with the Chattanooga/Hamilton County Health Department, we have local organizations ready to present different sessions to the classes."
Some of the presenters are:
Chattanooga Police Department
Lifeforce
Erlanger Trauma Room
The Tennessee Highway Patrol
MADD - Youth in Action
Tennessee Safety Council
DARE Officer Greg Hill
Norfolk-Southern Railroad Safety
Chattanooga District Attorney, Parke Masterson
The Johnson Group
"We will have use of a driving simulator, No Zone Truck, computer videos, such as AAA's Driver-ZED, and NHTSA's The Traffic Safety Box, and much more.
"Radio Station KISS 98.1 FM will do a live remote from Notre Dame from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
"Students will work in small groups throughout different centers of activity during the day."
The program will begin in the main Auditorium with a school wide assembly, then at 9:30 students will break into small groups and go through 5 - 35 minute rotations. The final assembly will take place at 12:50 to 1:10.