Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Eric Foster shares his story of being hit by an impaired driver at Merkley’s Driving School in Edmond on Oct. 20, 2025. Oklahoma’s required Work Zone Safety course for teen drivers is being expanded to include the impacts of impaired driving. (Photo by Emma Murphy/Oklahoma Voice)
EDMOND — A required work zone safety course for Oklahoma teen drivers is expanding to include an impaired driving section, the program’s founder said Monday at a driving school in Edmond.
Tom Robins, the founder of Work Zone Safe, said impaired driving is 100% preventable and now students will learn about the impacts. More than 400 lives in Oklahoma are lost every year due to impaired driving-related crashes, according to a news release…