High School Students Take In Mock Tragedy
PLYMOUTH (WWJ) - It seemed real enough. A med-evac helicopter was flown in with first responders as part of a mock drunk driving crash at the Plymouth-Canton High School football field.
With graduation season just around the corner, several students played the part of the injured and deceased, as the junior and senior classes watched in silence as the crash unfold before them: one of their friends was killed, two others were critically hurt and the drunk driver faced prison for second degree murder.
Their silence was what SADD adviser Janet Sutherland was hoping for.
"For every hundred kids, you might get two that say, 'Wow, I got something out of it.' But there are others that you run into ten years later that say, 'You know, by the way, I got a lot out of that'," Sutherland said.
Canton Senior Lindsay Lipa was one of those "injured" in the back seat of the crumpled car -- a track star with an athletic scholarship, she would paralyzed from the crash.
"The fact that we're reenacting this, like this could happen to us in the future ... it's really, really profound in the way that it impacts me and my other friends. Like I said, it could happen to anyone," Lipa said.
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