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Crime & Safety

WATCH: Maryland High Schoolers Drive 'Drunk'

Maryland Public Safety agencies partnered to serve up a grim reminder to area high school students before prom season.

A group of high school students from in Eldersburg  visited the on Monday as part of a campaign to raise awareness about driving safely.

Instructors had one message: Drive safely, or risk death.

The reminder comes just in time for prom season.  a driver's course wearing DUI goggles, participating in field sobriety tests, lecture and testimony. It was organized by The Maryland Community Crime Prevention Institute, the Department of Public Safety and the Sykesville facility.

The program was the first of its kind for the institute, with more planned.

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