PRATT — The newly crowned Miss Kansas says a personal experience inspired her platform to combat texting and driving.
The Hutchinson News reports that 22-year-old Kendall Schoenekase, of Overland Park, was a passenger in a car in June 2014, when the driver began to text. The driver crossed the centerline and collided with another vehicle. Schoenekase suffered minor injuries and a young girl was also injured.
She said that she thought about how much worse the crash could have been, and how she could have told the driver to ...