WBAY ABC 2 News

By Molly Hendrickson

Excel Driving and Aurora Baycare Medical Center are teaming up to help teach kids the consequences of distracted or impaired driving.

Lisa Koehler’s teaching style is extremely honest and hands-on.

“We lubricate this up and then we put it up the nostril. It slides down and then it sits just like that,” the trauma nurse says, explaining a medical procedure used on patients, including crash victims.

But it works.

“With teenagers you really need to be in their face and not sugarcoat things. There’s some parts that really bother some more than others, but they need to know,” Koehler says.

“It’s kind of scary to think you’re going out there into the world and it’s like those things happen, people die in cars,” student Katie Hansen said.

For the past eight months, Koehler has been visiting Excel Driving classes armed with her box full of E.R. equipment to show kids exactly what the consequences are for drunken or distracted driving.

“You hold the leg down and you drill that in. Now I have an   [more]