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Glasgow firefighters remove the roof of a Volkswagen during a mock crash at Barren County High School on Monday. The event aims to get teens to wear their seatbelts. Senior Lyndsey Crumpton is removed from the wrecked car by the Barren-Metcalfe Ambulance Service.
GINA KINSLOW / Glasgow Daily Times


Published May 13, 2008 04:14 pm - Lyndsey Crumpton is not a professional actress, but on Monday she played a serious role — a critically injured teenager.

Mock crash aims to drive point home


By GINA KINSLOW
Glasgow Daily Times

GLASGOW

Lyndsey Crumpton is not a professional actress, but on Monday she played a serious role — a critically injured teenager.

Crumpton was one of four Barren County High School seniors who took part in a mock crash to show students what can happen if they drink and drive and how important it is to wear a seat belt.

“It’s good to show kids how it really happens,” Crumpton said. “It will open their eyes and they will think twice before they get into the car after drinking.”

A wrecked Volkswagen was brought in for the demonstration. The “injured” students were painted with fake blood and asked to sit in the car – which had broken windows and a smashed front end – and pretend they had been seriously injured.

Joining Crumpton in the skit were BCHS seniors Adam Fife, Kali Lyons and Lucas Mohon.

Crumpton, Lyons and Mohon were placed on stretchers, loaded into ambulances and whisked away from the scene with sirens blaring.

Fife, however, got to ride in a hearse belonging to A.F. Crow and Son Funeral Home. He played the role of the teen who died after being thrown from the car because he wasn’t wearing his seat belt.

Portraying his mother was Valeria Ward, the mother of a classmate, who came running up to the scene screaming.

Ward supported the idea of the mock crash.

“I think it will help the children see what a crash looks like and hopefully make them think before getting into a car and driving recklessly without their safety belt,” she said.

Firefighters with the Glasgow Fire Department were called in to cut the roof off the Volkswagen using Jaws of Life tools while ambulance personnel stood by waiting to tend to the victims.

Watching were members of the school’s student body.

Zach Austin, a senior, said seeing friends being extracted from a wrecked car hit home.

“It was kind of scary to see what could happen, even if you’re not drinking and driving,” he said. “Wrecks can always happen, so it’s kind of weird to actually see something like this happen.”

Witnessing the mock crash made senior Aideoro Vco glad she wears her seat belt.



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