Ahead of prom season, schools work to demonstrate dangers of impaired driving
CARROLL COUNTY, Tenn. — One local school held a special demonstration for their students ahead of their upcoming prom.
West Carroll Junior and Senior High School held a mock crash presentation for their students. This showed the potential dangers of drinking and driving.
Assistant Principal Adam Douglas tells us more about this presentation.
“We partnered with the Carroll County Sheriff’s Department and first responders around here, and Tennessee Highway Patrol to get this together,” Douglas said. “There was a theatrical part in the building of prom night, and this is the aftermath.”
We are seeing more and more schools do this demonstration for their students and there is a very good reason. Douglas tells us why it is important for the students to have this experience.
“I think the biggest thing is that it’s a visual aspect, because a lot of these students have not experienced something like this traumatically,” Douglas said. “So we can talk to them all day long and tell them not to, and have a cop come in or a police officer come in and speak to them, but them actually seeing what all goes in it… The rescue squad, the pulling apart of the cars, the families that have lost loved ones.”
This was no small scenario. Many first responders participated in this mock crash just as they would a real event. It took a lot of hard work and planning to make this seem as real as possible.
“This community has been behind us 100% with this, and I really, really appreciate it. You see the McLemorsville Fire Department, Atwood Rescue, and just a whole bunch of great community members here. We are really excited and they see the importance of it and are willing to. This has been about three months of planning meeting with the Tennessee Highway Patrol multiple times,” Douglas explained.
Officer Haley, the school’s SRO, sort of pinpointed this whole idea. He told us that saving any student from any potential harm through this makes it more than worth it.
Douglas said it was important for the students to see exactly what could happen.
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