High school seniors will soon experience two eagerly anticipated rites of passage, and with them memories that will remain through their entire lives. Prom and graduation season have arrived, and with them the joys – and occasional sorrows – that come with these once-in-a-lifetime events. The dangers of drunk and distracted driving have been well publicized, to the extent that most teens now usually rent a limousine or some other car service for transport to the prom.
But it’s the time after that formal affair that sets off the most alarms. It’s in those instances of post-prom get-togethers that the possibility of alcohol-induced car accidents arises, and with it a potentially tragic outcome. Many local high schools have made it their business to warn their students – in dramatic fashion – about the dire consequences of drunk and distracted driving at this time of year.
Dracut High, which for years has presented chilling examples of what a crash’s aftereffects look like, did so again last Friday. Emergency responders again drove home the dangers of reckless driving by assembling a mock car crash. At the event, titled “Make a Date with Life,” Dracut police and firefighters joined members of the Dracut High School Drama Club, Pridestar Trinity EMS, Martineau’s Towing, and McKenna-Ouellette Funeral Home to stage the aftermath of a fatal motor-vehicle crash for high school seniors.
Dracut Fire Lt. Brian McCarthy, who organized the event, said the mock crash gi.
