SUNDRE — Partying and proceeding to get behind the wheel intoxicated is a potentially perilous and irreversibly life-altering choice and worthwhile reminder as the celebratory graduation season gets closer.
As part of a live demonstration that drives home that point, members of the Sundre RCMP as well as the Sundre Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services performed a staged impaired driving crash that included a fatality on Thursday May 12 .
Several Sundre High School drama club students played the roles of an intoxicated driver who ends up being placed under arrest after blowing over the legal limit, as well as a victim who is declared deceased at the scene while emergency crews work diligently to extricate a patient from the wreck.
The realistically recreated emergency is a part of the Prevent Alcohol and Risk Related Trauma in Youth (P.A.R.T.Y.) program, with the aim of raising awareness through vivid and emotional experiences that in this case also involved an arrest and live extrication courtesy of the fire department.
Previously conducted annually, the program had not been held in Sundre for the past two years due to the pandemic.