Every Fifteen Minutes

Every fifteen minutes someone in the US is killed in an alcohol related accident.

For the last couple of days my daughter has been in a representation at her high school of how horrific this is. She was a survivor in a simulated accident in which three of her classmates died at the scene and another died in the hospital.

All the students were fitted with prosthetic injuries and the rescue squad actually used the jaws of life to remove the 'victims' from the car. This simulation was so real the students were given red cards to hold up if any of the rescuing was causing an actual injury. Those killed at the scene were taken by the coroner while the survivors were transported to the hospital. Parents were notified by phone of the injuries or in person by the police if one of their children had died.

At the hospital doctors actually simulated trying to revive one of the critically injured, but unfortunately were unable to save her.

The student portraying the drunk driver was field sobriety tested and taken into custody by the city police.

Today at school the victims were eulogized and funeral arrangements were announced.

Very intense.

We do something like that here every two years with a fake plane involved in an accident.....Is far more intense and real, as it involves the airport, the airlines, firebrigades, security, the media and a bunch of actors from oversea. It's too damm real and stressfull, specially if you represent the head of a department....

*is about to reply when he is suddenly runover by some drunken redneck*

not as hihg as 15 min , but we have a hihg rating of the same thign in Sweden. There is some sort of faction "Dont drink and Drive " or whatever they are called. I would say its should be common sense to most ppl that dont drive after they have been drinking but hey drinking knocks out your common sense.

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Originally posted by Dark Angel Must Be Destroyed:
*is about to reply when he is suddenly runover by some drunken redneck*

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The worst is next....he is going to get out and try to punch you.....

alcohol is a HUGE problem...
my dad is a recovering alcoholic

and my roomate has two friends in jail over driving under the influence and another in rehab, this stuff can really grab a hold of a person

*ahem*
my name is Scott, and I'm an alcoholic.

and there's yer reason why I never learned to drive.
although I might someday in the newar future.

Wow, I think it is a great way to make em realise.

I never heard about anything like that done up here tough.

damn. they never did anything that intense when my sis and friends were in high school. all they did was have some dude dressed up as the grim reaper go around and touch random students, who would then go and paint their faces white and their lips blue and put on a black robe. they'd sit in class and be utterly silent, occasionally getting up and touching another student, who would join them.

kind of lame by comparison.

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Originally posted by TheUnquietGrave:
...some dude dressed up as the grim reaper go around and touch random students, who would then go and paint their faces white and their lips blue and put on a black robe. they'd sit in class and be utterly silent, occasionally getting up and touching another student, who would join them.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">...No, Tort, that was just the Goth kids filling out the clique. [img]wink.gif[/img]

I went to a friend's party last night in the field near his house.

There was beer and pot, of course.

But everyone that got wasted spent the night, thank God, because they couldn't have driven home.

That's pretty intense, Sculpey. Scared straight?

I lost 3 friends in High school. Small town, everybody knew everybody.
ALL alcohol related.
Case:A
Motorcycle + phone pole. (when a v-6 was a new thing) EMT gathered remains with a shovel.

Case:B
"street race" colision. Both cars racing trading paint (stupid race to begin with, stock late 70's,'98 vs. 68 HURST Olds convert.) Ironic thing here, the only casualty, didn't even know he was "part" of a race. Passed out in the back seat.

Case:C
What's commonly called fleeing and eluding.
Brand new '86 5.0 ltr,'Stang. T-tops.....again, passed out passenger.....he WAS buckled, but loosely. See, when you flip a car with t-tops...a persons weight tends to pull them out of their seat. His "likeness" was found 240 ft from the final resting place of the wreck.

I tell this to every "youngin" that has the wild child going on. You never can control anything but yourself.
Even if you "have a ride home"......you can't control the driver unless it's YOU.

I never did like getting drunk as a kid, nor now.
But it's a really sobering thing to have something SOOOooooo close, hit home.

Kudos to your community, Sculpey.

Not so much a comment on drunk driving, but about seat belts - I saw first hand last summer the difference between wearing and not wearing one in a rollover.
3 teenage girls (somewhere between 17-19 I'd guess). The driver, who was wearing her seat belt, had a bruised knee. That's it.
The other 2 were thrown, and the car rolled over one of them. I never want to see a human body twisted like that again. I heard that the other one has permanent brain damage. With the head trauma she had I wouldn't be surprised. All because they couldn't take 3 seconds to buckle up.

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Originally posted by Dark Angel Must Be Destroyed:
*is about to reply when he is suddenly runover by some drunken redneck*

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">&lt;is about to quote when he is suddenly smeared all over the pavement by the yuppie in the bimmer that had one too many casual martinis at lunch&gt;

The one guy I work with actually said, "I started taking the highway when I leave the bar because the cops have been watching the back roads more closely."
I said, "yeah, and that way you have the opportunity to kill way more people when you pass out at the wheel."

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