San Bernardino Police Department, California Highway Patrol, And Office Of Traffic Safety Team With Pacific High School For “Every 15 Minutes” Anti-Dui Presentation
San Bernardino, Calif – The City of San Bernardino Police Department, California Highway Patrol, San Bernardino County Fire Department, and the Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) has teamed with Pacific High School to present “Every 15 Minutes” an anti-DUI presentation to its students on Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at approximately 10:00 a.m. The presentation will focus on the reality and consequences of underage drinking and driving. The presentation will include a re-enactment of a DUI collision involving students from Pacific High School. Pacific High School will participate in the two-day educational program designed to expose students to all facets of what occurs during a DUI related collision and traumatic post effects of these incidents.
The second day (April 27th) will consist of an assembly/mock funeral for the students killed in the previous day’s crash. The assembly will begin at 10:00 a.m. and conclude at approximately 11:00 a.m. The focus of the assembly stresses that the decision to consume alcohol can affect many more people than just the one who drinks. This very emotional and heart-wrenching event will illustrate to students, the potentially dangerous consequences of alcohol use, regardless of how casual they believe their use may be.
