BHS holds mock accident

Members of the Brownstown Fire Department demonstrate for Brownstown High School students the work necessary to extricate individuals from wrecked vehicles.

Illinois State Police officer Bruce Morecraft issues a roadside sobriety test to BHS freshman Drake Hall, one of the students who participated in the mock drunk-driving crash.

Brownstown Fire Chief Greg Strobel talks to students about the dangers of drinking and driving, as well as how distracted driving also causes many accidents.

Brownstown High School students heard Fayette County Coroner Bruce Bowen talk about how drinking and driving kills and also how those deaths impact the families of drunken driving victims.