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 put her phone ...