Fate Inspires New Branch Of Drivers’ Education

TOLONO – As the saying goes, knowledge is power. The way Jordy Curtis sees it, knowledge is life. She was 16 years old when she nearly lost hers. Although her death would have been marked as the result of an accident, knowledge could have saved her life. As it turned out, that job fell to luck instead. In the summer of 2017, Curtis had hit a high point of youth: She was a multisport athlete at Unity High School approaching her junior year. Her parents had bought her a car for her sweet 16 – a 2011 Dodge Charger, white, that could get up to 370 horsepower. It was that car, which she had loved from the start, that she was driving in July, heading back toward Tolono after dropping off a friend. At the time, she’d held a driver’s license for all of three months.