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    Friday, April 26, 2024

    Mock-up with a message

    Old Lyme Resident State Trooper Kazimera Morse checks on the "victims" in a car as the Lymes' Youth Services Bureau holds a mock crash for students at Lyme/Old Lyme High School on Friday, April 28, 2017. The event, staged to give the students a sense of the dangers and results of drunken driving, depicted a single-vehicle crash in which a drunk student was responsible for the death of one classmate and serious injury to another two passengers. The crash was followed by a mock funeral and assembly with speakers from Mothers Against Drunk Driving and the Backus Hospital emergency department. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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    Old Lyme — Resident State Trooper Kazimera Morse checks on the "victims" in a car as the Lymes' Youth Services Bureau holds a mock crash for students at Lyme/Old Lyme High School on Friday.

    The event, staged to give the students a sense of the dangers and results of drunken driving, depicted a single-vehicle crash in which a drunk student was responsible for the death of one classmate and serious injury to another two passengers.

    The crash was followed by a mock funeral and assembly with speakers from Mothers Against Drunk Driving and the Backus Hospital emergency department.

    Students at Lyme/Old Lyme High School watch the action during the Lymes' Youth Services Bureau mock crash Friday, April 28, 2017. The event, staged to give the students a sense of the dangers and results of drunken driving, depicted a single-vehicle crash in which a drunk student was responsible for the death of one classmate and serious injury to another two passengers. The crash was followed by a mock funeral and assembly with speakers from Mothers Against Drunk Driving and the Backus hospital emergency department. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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