"every 15 minutes."

[Chayton]

This week, the "every 15 minutes" program was put on at our school. For those of you that dont know, Every 15 minutes is basically an extremely realistic drunk driving crash simulation. The amount of time, money and effort that they put into this is impressive.The actors in the program are classmates from my school, my sister was one of the actors. It is crazy how much work they put into this. They have real police officers, real ambulances, even a real helicopter lands on the football field and airlifts one of the actors to a hospital. They even film everything and make a short film out of it. It really makes you realize how easily life can be taken away. It made a huge impact on all of the students. Anyways here is the actual film they made at my school.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH69FWioB2I

edit: just fyi, they film this all in one day.


And here is a photo I took of the actors during the program:
http://distilleryimage1.s3.amazonaws. com/7a21410689a111e180c91231380162 65_7.jpg

[PonyUP]

Good stuff, I remember having this when I was in high school. Good program, kind of scared straight.

However I'd be willing to bet $50k that if you polled the students that went through this, 90% would think the driving age should not be raised to 18 as many will still believe it will never happen to them.


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[Krytin]

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I sent my daughter to one on Long Island when she first got her license - best money I ever spent and her driving skills today are much better for it!!

Every teen driver should take this course!

[RF Overlord]

Wow. That was pretty powerful, and well-acted, especially considering they are all non-professionals. Thanks, bobbybob.

[guspech750]

WOW.......... Amazing video. Crazy realistic. Why not show that on TV for a reality show?

[JOEMERC]

These reinactments of driving drunk don't work,tell you why my stepson was part of the actors in the mock crash scenes at his high school of driving drunk,and less then a year later while drunk he smashed his car (totaled) , but he's OK. But not the 3 parked cars he hit.

[RF Overlord]

I don't think that's a fair comparison. If doing one of these re-enactments saves even ONE life, it's worth it.

[MrBluGruv]

I'm afraid that while powerful, these enactments would only carry seriously significant impact for those that have already lost people to this kind of situation. I lost a friend to driving stupid while driving drunk (kind of redundant I guess), and I can tell you with absolute certainty that this wouldn't have affected me as much as it did had I watched it before he got himself killed.

[JOEMERC]

Maybe your right about it keeping some people from driving drunk but you would think the actual people involved in the mock crash would have more impact than it did with my stepson.

[RF Overlord]

Speaking as a recovering alcoholic (going on 23 years now), I used to do stupid **** while driving drunk all the time. But for the grace of God, I was never in a serious accident and never hurt anyone. I do shudder when I think of all the times I SHOULD have been in an accident or could have run someone over and every day I thank the friends and family who helped me get sober. I stand by my statement that if these programs save even ONE life, they're worth it.