Decisions you make now can have lifelong consequences. That’s one of the messages faculty and staff at Plymouth High School wanted to convey to students by staging a mock drunk driving fatality crash. Gene Skirvin sponsors the student group Leaders Eliminating Alcohol and Drugs. He hopes students will stop and think.
“If for some reason we save one person by doing it, then it was worth the time we took to do it,” Skirvin said.
Local firefighters, police, EMS and the Marshall County Coroner took part Thursday’s exercise. It also featured a medical helicopter. Skirvin says the students who participated were made up beforehand to look as realistic as possible.
The Plymouth High School prom is Saturday night. Skirvin encourages students to stop and think about how life can change in an instant.
“They’re all probably going to get into situations at times where they shouldn’t be. We just hope that they have somebody to call to get them out of that situation without making it worse than it already was.”
Plymouth High School stages mock crashes like this one every three years.
