What’s Your Opinion: Drunk Driving Hoax To Scare Teens Out Of Drinking And Driving – With Video

June 10th, 2008 (1) Posted By ticticboom.

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What do you think of this approach?

Many juniors and seniors were driven to tears – a few to near hysterics – May 26 when a uniformed police officer arrived in several classrooms to notify them that a fellow student had been killed in a drunken-driving accident.

The officer read a brief eulogy, placed a rose on the deceased student’s seat, then left the class members to process their thoughts and emotions for the next hour.

The program, titled “Every 15 Minutes,” was designed by Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Its title refers to the frequency in which a person somewhere in the country dies in an alcohol-related traffic accident.

About 10 a.m., students were called to the athletic stadium, where they learned that their classmates had not died. There, a group of seniors, police officers and firefighters staged a startlingly realistic alcohol-induced fatal car crash. The students who had purportedly died portrayed ghostly apparitions encircling the scene.

Though the deception left some teens temporarily confused and angry, if it makes even one student think twice before getting behind the wheel of a car while intoxicated, it is worth the price, said California Highway Patrol Officer Eric Newbury, who orchestrates the program at local high schools.

(SOSD)

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  • Jacqueline Hart

    I think it helps to open people’s eyes to how dangerous this is, i recently took part in an Every 15 Minute drill(i was an EMT) and even knowing it wasn’t real i was moved almost to tears.
    My brother was one of the kids who supposedly died and he hadn’t told me he was taking part and vice versa.
    Imagine my shock upon arriving at the scene and seeing him “dead”.