If you're in the area of Lehman High School this morning, officials are asking you to not panic when you see just about every local law enforcement agency, fire department and ambulance at the school. Today is the Shattered Dreams program for students. There will be lots of sirens and emergency vehicles around Bunton/Lehman area between 10 and 11:30 and a Starflight helicopter if weather permits.
Shattered Dreams is a drunk driving /distracted driving prevention program requiring collaboration among Hays CISD and local first responders. With the help of make-up artists, students portray victims (and one portrays a drunk driver) in a mock accident scene. First responders treat the accident scene as real, including transporting at least one student to Seton Medical Center Hays. Another student goes to a morgue while the drunk driver is arrested and goes to the Hays County Jail
In this file photo from March 2014, the Grim Reaper (aka, Mike Fulton of Kyle) watches silently over the mock accident scene. Later he will go inside the high school and tap a student every few minutes, representing the number of people who die in drunk driving accidents each day.
Those students become "dead" and cannot speak for the rest of the day.
Shattered Dreams runs every three years at alternating high schools.
Check next week's issue of the Hays Free Press for more photos of Shattered Dreams.
