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Fatal Vision
WVU Tech Campus Safety Program
Former Chief Ron Mink with the Fatal Vision golf cart.
The newest teaching tool that we have added
to the Campus Safety department is our 1998 golf cart. The golf cart is
used to teach drug and alcohol awareness to our students as well as
students from the surrounding community schools and local churches.
The program we use is called Fatal
Vision. The Fatal Vision concept was invented and developed by Mike
Aguilar, President of Innocorp LTd. in Verona, Wisconsin. This concept
includes the Fatal Vision goggles which are designed to simulate the
influence of drugs and alcohol. These goggles from Innocorp are the
best teaching tool I have ever used in my 31 year career to reach the
youth of our area. The goggles along with the many other available
products from Innocorp have made Tech's Fatal Vision program a hit in
the Kanawha Valley.
Fatal Vision goggles are worn by a
student who tries to perform tasks such as walking a straight line or go
through a field sobriety test. The student gets to experience the
impairing effects that drugs and alcohol create first hand without being
under the influence.
At Tech we have gone one better. Ron
Mink, with the help of the Tech Foundation office, started a fund
raising campaign that added a golf cart to assist in teaching our young
people the ills of using drugs and alcohol. We put the student behind
the wheel and let them drive the golf cart to experience the a real
effects of driving under the influence of alcohol. It has been real eye
opener for the student. We've set up an obstacle course that students
must negotiate while wearing the Fatal Vision goggles, they have failed
every time.
This is an outstanding program for
students from 7th grade and up. If we can bring a program to your school
or youth group please call Alesa
Martin at 442-1005.
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Ron Mink and Clarence Shepherd, Jr., the
original Fatal Vision Instructors |

Ron Mink addressing a local church youth
group |
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