VALLEY CITY, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – Valley City High School is collaborating with local, county and state emergency responders to provide a re-enactment of a car crash scene involving students on Wednesday, May 1st at 10:30am. This event will be held in the parking lot of the Youth Sports Complex and is meant to serve as an awareness event to help students understand the powerful reality of how quickly accidents can happen especially when it involves distracted or impaired driving risk factors. This is an important message for young people any time, but especially as they move into the spring and summer seasons that include prom, graduation, and outdoor parties.

Valley City School Superintendent Josh Johnson said due to the intensity and nature of the realism of this event and the involvement of emergency responders, we want to inform parents and students alike. The script of this event will include students being triaged for their injuries by first responders and will involve a student who is pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. Students in grades 10, 11 and 12 who wish to attend are allowed to attend.

He said this event is NOT Mandatory for students to attend. Any student who does NOT want to attend this re-enactment for any reason will be allowed to remain at the Jr/Sr High School in a supervised location for the duration of the event. Students simply need to let their classroom instructor know they don’t wish to participate and they will be directed to the designated location.