Firefighters demonstrate rescuing someone trapped in a car. After the prom, which is Saturday, April 21, students are invited to a party at Southern Virginia University’s Stoddard Center hosted by the Parent Advisory Committee at PMHS. The party will run until 3 a.m., and include inflatables, a mechanical bull and a DJ. The simulated crash will be the highlight of several safe-prom activities planned for the week and post-prom. “If you just hear about it, it’s harder to understand the whole purpose of it, and to get the actual feel of it. But I feel like everybody that’s involved and gets to see it is moved by it.” “I think it sticks with everybody sees it,” Austin said. It can come from their laughing and giggling and talking and having conversation,” Frazier said.Īshley Austin, a junior at James Madison University, participated in the simulation in 2015 when she was a senior at PMHS. She had been moved by another simulation there years earlier. So in her senior year she played the role of a victim who was ejected from a car and was placed on a stretcher and taken away in an ambulance. This year, it’s part of a week of activities designed to try to make the prom safe by alerting students to the dangers of distracted driving and other risky behaviors.ĭistracted driving is more than drunken driving. The school’s Interact Club has sponsored such simulations in the past, but not for the past four years.
“The site is treated exactly as it would be if it was a real scene,” said Donna Frazier, the PMHS teacher who advises the Interact Club, the event’s sponsor.
Students at Parry McCluer High School watch the last mock car crash four years ago. Police officers and medics will be on the scene. Hundreds of students will gather to watch. Seniors will be assigned various roles, from victims to the drivers of the cars.ĭepending on their conditions, the victims, in fake blood and pale makeup, will be taken away in ambulances, a helicopter and a hearse borrowed from a local funeral home. Two days before the prom, a mock two-car crash will take place outside of PMHS on April 19 to simulate the impact of distracted driving. There will be blood before this year’s junior-senior prom at Parry McCluer High School.
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