"Every15 Minutes" Mock DUI Crash Teaches High Schoolers About Drinking and Driving

There was a helicopter buzzing overhead this morning and craziness over police scanners about car crash fatalities, but none of it was real.

held its annual "Every 15 Minutes" event, which demonstrates that every 15 minutes in the United States, someone dies as the result of an alcohol-related crash.

Each year, either Foothill High School or puts on the event to simulate drunken driving for student awareness — to bring to the students' attention what could happen if they drink and then get behind the wheel.

The event depicts drinking drivers — all actors wearing makeup — that are involved in a collision in front of a watching crowd.

, the and EMS personnel responded to this morning's event, as if it were the real deal. In this morning's mock crash, there were two fatalities, and three seriously injured students — including one paralyzed. One fatality was a teacher; one fatality was a student passenger.

A medical evacuation helicopter landed to air-lift a severely injured student to the Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley.

The last responding official was the Alameda County Coroner. The entire event is very realistic; the makeup students were looks real, simulating injuries.

One student driver was given a road side sobriety test, then was hand-cuffed in front of the crowd, arrested and transported to jail.

The relatives of the young people killed in this event will be notified, as will the family of the arrested drunk driver. The event shows how the entire community is impacted all the way around, from students to parents, teachers, and the professional responding to the scene.