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Drinking + Driving = Death

Every half-hour, an ominous bell tolls through the halls of Woodland.  Glancing into the hallway, one may catch a glimpse of the the Grim Reaper as it floats soundlessly toward its next victim.  Who will be its next soul to claim?  A math student?  A cheerleader?  The school president?  An AP student?  A skateboarder?  A senior who has already been accepted into college with a scholarship?   Your friend?

Making good decisions about under-age drinking continues to be a major problem for teens.  And to better exemplify the appaling statistics of teen-drunk driving, Woodland Regional Student Council is presenting a dramatic interpretation of one of greatest loss of life amongst teens–the Day of Death.

When the bell tolls, one soul will “pass over” at the Grim Reaper’s beckoning.  This symbolic gesture represents a percentage of teens killed in drinking-related accidents each year.   According to S.A.D.D. statistics, roughly 28% of students aged 12-20 acknolwedge drinking within one month’s time.  Couple that with the 12.8% of drinking-related fatalities, 40% of which were caused by teens, and you can see how busy the Grim Reaper will be today.   Statistically, nearly twelve Woodland students could lose their lives to drunk-driving related fatalities.

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PHOTOS by Rachael Conti

REFERENCES

http://www.sadd.org/stats.htm

http://www.alcoholalert.com/teenage-drunk-driving.html

7 thoughts on “Drinking + Driving = Death

  1. J. Mikulski May 6, 2010 at 10:05 pm

    My favorite part of the entire day was the bell ringing repeatedly throughout AP Literature testing, even after I asked them to stop. It wasn’t distracting at all!!

  2. Douglas Aldrich May 7, 2010 at 9:49 am

    I can only imagine what that must have been like for the AP Testing students…

  3. erica troiani May 10, 2010 at 10:40 am

    i didnt like how they “killed” people that way, it was depressing since there was a recent death that i know about

  4. =( May 10, 2010 at 10:52 am

    this is a very sad topic i must say.

  5. you dont need to know May 10, 2010 at 11:36 am

    this was sooo sad. i didnt know about it until that morning and it made me realize that in one school day 13 teenagers die just of drunk driving. it really really affected me.

  6. the guy May 12, 2010 at 12:56 pm

    i didn’t like it in stead of pepole on the councel they should have gone for random senours

  7. Kid May 14, 2010 at 8:39 am

    they only went for people on student council because it was the first year the event was being done. but now since its out in the open and there is awareness of it the WRSC plans to have more deaths per day and get the student body more invovled.

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