NORWICH – The Chenango County District Attorney's Office visited Norwich High School driver's education students on Tuesday to discuss the importance of good decision making, while highlighting the consequences of bad decisions coupled with operating a motor vehicle.

Chenango County District Attorney Joseph McBride, along with Chenango County Traffic Diversion Program Coordinator Gard Turner, addressed driver's education students in their fourth week of instruction about the dangers of drinking and driving, driving under the influence of drugs, and texting and driving.

McBride told students, "We're going to make sure that you come out of this room making better decisions, because that's why bad things happen; not because anybody – especially in the DWI world – is intrinsically evil. It's because they make bad decisions."

McBride briefed the students on two fatal drunk driving cases that have stuck with him over the years: when a drunk driver killed former Norwich students Rachel Nargiso, Emily Collins, and Katie Almeter in Hamilton, and when a drunk driver killed Guilford student Ashley Crisell in Bainbridge.