South Central High School students came outside the school Thursday to see a mock crash and one of their classmates dead and another critically injured.
South Central Agriculture teacher TJ Bolin explained the scenario.
“Two vehicle head-on collision. Two students were driving while intoxicated and the other three students were driving while distracted on their Snapchat and things like that and they had a collision.”
Bolin said he and the senior FFA officers wanted to put on the wreck to show what can happen with drunk and distracted driving.
South Central student Alec Langley playing the drunk driver involved in a mock fatal crash outside South Central High School in the custody of Farina Police Officer Chad Dayrit.
Farina Fire Department EMT Kelisha Amos was happy to organize the emergency services.
“Scenario that played out is something we see quite often in real life. There are more accidents that occur than people realize from distracted and drunk driving. It only takes a split second for you to take your eyes away from the road for something like this to occur.”
Alec Langley was playing the drunk driver and ended up in an orange Fayette County Sheriff’s Department jumpsuit and handcuffs.
“It’s been really real and weird. It’s something that can happen to anybody or any group of people.”
Dennis Wollin played the person who was killed when thrown from the pickup truck and later put into a body bag after being pronounced dead by the coroner.
“It was very surreal seeing the blood on my hands and being in that position. Knowing my friends are seeing this and are very upset. It was a very unique position to be in and it really makes you think.”
Brant Heistand was critically injured in the crash.
“It could really happen to anyone anytime. It’s an unexpected thing in a teenager’s life and shows how it can be so quickly taken away.”
And Fayette County Sheriff David Russell says for those who don’t think about the consequences of a serious accident, he says he has a real-life experience to say otherwise.
“My wife had a best friend that at the age of 16 was killed in an accident due to drinking. She pulled in front of a train. My wife is long out of school but it’s something that still affects her every day
South Central students attend the funeral for their classmate killed in the mock accident.
. We visit the grave and put flowers there every year and it’s almost like it was yesterday.”
The crash was followed up with a visitation and funeral service in the high school gym for the student killed in the mock crash.
