OHS stages mock DUI accident to educate students

The Oxford School District put on a drunk driving demonstration to teach its students about the dangers of driving under the influence.

 

Paramedics treat an injured student, Hayden Hudson, in a drunk driving accident demonstration.

This demonstration was put on a couple days before the school's prom.  The demonstration was held in the parking lot for juniors and seniors.  They set up the scene but placing two cars that had obviously just been in a collision and put smoke rolling around it.

The program, called The Prom Promise, recruited five OHS drama students to play the roles of the injured passengers.  They were joined in the full scale demonstration by members of the first responder groups of Oxford, as well as the county coroner, Shivers Towing, Baptist Memorial Hospital and Hospital Wing Flight Company.

While this was not the first time the school district had taken steps to warn students about the dangers of drunk driving, it was the first time that they put on a demonstration.  After the demonstration the students were then taken into the gym to hear a guest speaker talk about his experience driving under the influence.

The demonstration was featured in the Oxford High School newspaper theCharger.