A Fond du Lac County woman is speaking out about her distracted driving experience in hopes that others won't do the same.
Three years ago, Kailie Sasada says she was checking a Facebook notification on her phone while driving, which led to her crashing into another car and a semi.
Sasada says she and two other people were injured in the accident. She now has a felony on her record because of that crash and says she spent a year in jail. Today, Sasada says she spends her time talking to young drivers about how that decision changed her life.
"I wasn't sending a long text message and I wasn't talking on the phone looking at the screen,” Sasada says. “I wasn't doing anything for a long period of time. It was a matter of a second and that's how quick my life could've been taken or someone else's."
Sasada tells us she put together a documentary to tell her story to driver's ed classes. She also says distracted driving goes beyond just looking at your phone: it can be eating, putting on makeup or even changing a song on the radio. Whatever it is taking your mind off the road, Sasada says it is not worth it.
Sasada says her lengthy sentence was due to the fact she lied to authorities twice before they found out she was checking Facebook moments before the crash. She says if she had to do it over again, she would have told the truth from the beginning.
