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Three Lakes High School students sign pledge to never text and drive

Wierschke
encourages
his peers

State Patrol Major Sandra Huxtable directed Three Lakes High School senior and two-time LG U.S. National Texting Champion Austin Wierschke to the website itcanwait.com to sign a pledge to never text while driving. —Contributed Photo
State Patrol Major Sandra Huxtable directed Three Lakes High School senior and two-time LG U.S. National Texting Champion Austin Wierschke to the website itcanwait.com to sign a pledge to never text while driving. —Contributed Photo
Nearly 200 students at Three Lakes High School learned about the dangers of texting and driving and were urged to sign a pledge to never text behind the wheel during an event at the school last Friday.

Three Lakes teamed up with AT&T, AAA and the Wisconsin State Patrol in a public awareness campaign to urge the school’s students, and all drivers, that text messages should wait until after driving.

Three Lakes senior Austin Wierschke, the two-time LG U.S. National Texting Champion, also challenged his peers to join him in taking the AT&T pledge to never text and drive.

Last August, Wierschke won the sixth annual LG U.S. National Texting

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 7:03 PM
 

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