BALTIMORE -- A teen wants to warn others about a lesson she learned the hard way: never text and drive.
Liz Marks was in high school when she crashed her car. She was reading a text while driving.
The crash left her blind in one eye -- and diminished her ability to smell, hear, and even fall asleep.
Liz tells her story in a video posted on the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s YouTube channel .
The video’s description, written from the perspective of Marks’ mother, reads: