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Public Safety Officials in New Smyrna Beach Show Dangers of Drinking and Driving During Demonstration

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As part of a plan to raise awareness to high school students about the dangers of drunk driving, especially during Prom, New Smyrna Beach High School has a biannual mock drunk driving class, performed in front of the study body by their peers. Recently, New Smyrna Beach High School students performed a scenario on 10th Street that involved two couples driving to prom. One of the males had been drinking and crashed his car head-on into the other couple’s car. Although the drunk driver suffered only minor personal injuries his girlfriend died at the scene. One of the passengers in the second automobile was airlifted to a hospital in critical condition; the second by ambulance. The mock crash began in 1998 at Deltona High School with the hopes that at least one student viewing the simulation would decide to refrain from drunk driving. In addition to the mock crash, random students were given red and black ribbons, representing those who could die or suffer personal injuries. For more read New Smyrna Beach High School puts on mock drunk driving crash to spread awareness to students before prom. According to Patty Tufano, a Bert Fish Medical Center nurse and founder of the Volusia County, Florida, mock crash program, figures from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration revealed that drinking and driving accounts for 30 fatalities daily across the county. In 2009, thos figures translated to almost 11,000 deaths and more than 74,000 experiences of sustaining serious personal injuries.

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