Students Get First-Hand Look at Drunk Driving Consequences Students Get First-Hand Look at Drunk Driving Consequences

5/7/13- Hartland High School and the Hartland-Deerfield Fire Authority worked together to warn students of the consequences of drinking and driving through an accident re-enactment. Screams and sirens were the only sound to be heard as students watched firefighters work with a medical response team to re-enact a real life drunk driving scenario in their school parking lot. In the scenario injured people are extracted from crashed vehicles as one student’s decision to drink and drive cost another student’s life. The entire process took around 45 minutes, which fire officials say is the realistic amount of time it takes to extract a body from a smashed vehicle. Students were urged to seek help from school counselors if needed following the re-enactment. Hartland High School and the Hartland-Deerfield Fire Authority work together every couple of years to make the mock drunk driving accident possible, with hopes of leaving an impact on students that will lead them to make safe choices as prom and graduation season approaches. (SO)