Crime & Safety

Photos: 'Every 15 Minutes' Drives Home Dangers of Drunk Driving

Students from and High Schools witnessed first-hand Thursday the potential tragedy that can result from drunk driving as they saw their classmates arrested, injured and killed during the annual "" program.

The program, presented with the help of real cops, firefighters, paramedics and a coroner, takes local juniors and seniors to the scene of a fatal alcohol-related car accident, with one student leaving the scene in handcuffs as several of his friends leave the same scene in an ambulance, and one leaves it in a body bag.

The second half of the program will take place in the form of an assmbly Friday morning at FVHS.

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