York County Sheriff’s Office invited to participate in National Safety Council event

​YORK – The York County Sheriff’s Office has been invited to participate in an impaired driving event hosted by the National Safety Council and AAA, which will be held in Omaha.

​The event is a “wet lab,” explains Sgt. Taylor Samek, “where we will be dosing volunteers with alcohol, having them drive in a driving simulator, and performing standardized field sobriety tests on them. This event serves as a launch for the holiday traffic enforcement campaign of Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over.”
He said this “provides a unique and educational opportunity for attendees to witness firsthand how impairment affects motor skills, judgment and reaction time. It aims to promote safer choices and reduce alcohol-related crashes on Nebraska roads.”
The event will be held Friday, Dec. 19, between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., at the National Safety Council office at 3111 Oak View Drive in Omaha.