A Sun Prairie High School student driver and the driver's classmates learn a sobering lesson as a result of the driver's real life experience with a dangerous, repeat drunk driver.
45 year old Todd Cavolt of Madison was charged Friday with seventh offense drunk driving, and hit and run, after authorities say he rear ended the student driver, twice, near the intersection of East Washington Avenue and Stoughton Road.
SPHS driver training instructor John Olson says students use simulators to experience the impairment to skills as the result of alcohol,. A 27 News crews watched as a student in a simulation of the skills of a driver with a blood alcohol level nearly two times the legal limit drove all over the simulated road, and eventually crashed in the simulation.
SPHS driver training instructor Chad Whalley was with the student driver victim in the car. He says it was a teachable moment, but a tough one. "Students make a connection to any incident in their life. They're going to remember it."
A court commissioner set Cavolt's bail at $3,000. He's also being held in the Dane County jail for a suspected probation violation.
Authorities say Cavolt's blood alcohol level was .26, more than three times Wisconsin's legal limit.
The criminal complaint states Cavolt's Pontiac sedan rear ended the student driver's car, as it waited in a line of cars to make a right turn. When the student driver pulled over to the road's shoulder after being hit, the complaint states Cavolt's car rear ended the teen driver again. According to the complaint, Cavolt told authorities the driver in front of him slammed on the brakes.
Authorities say police officers found Cavolt walking away, a distance from the collision, and was arrested.
No one was seriously hurt in the collisions.
45 year old Todd Cavolt of Madison was charged Friday with seventh offense drunk driving, and hit and run, after authorities say he rear ended the student driver, twice, near the intersection of East Washington Avenue and Stoughton Road.
SPHS driver training instructor John Olson says students use simulators to experience the impairment to skills as the result of alcohol,. A 27 News crews watched as a student in a simulation of the skills of a driver with a blood alcohol level nearly two times the legal limit drove all over the simulated road, and eventually crashed in the simulation.
SPHS driver training instructor Chad Whalley was with the student driver victim in the car. He says it was a teachable moment, but a tough one. "Students make a connection to any incident in their life. They're going to remember it."
A court commissioner set Cavolt's bail at $3,000. He's also being held in the Dane County jail for a suspected probation violation.
Authorities say Cavolt's blood alcohol level was .26, more than three times Wisconsin's legal limit.
The criminal complaint states Cavolt's Pontiac sedan rear ended the student driver's car, as it waited in a line of cars to make a right turn. When the student driver pulled over to the road's shoulder after being hit, the complaint states Cavolt's car rear ended the teen driver again. According to the complaint, Cavolt told authorities the driver in front of him slammed on the brakes.
Authorities say police officers found Cavolt walking away, a distance from the collision, and was arrested.
No one was seriously hurt in the collisions.
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