Photo by Keith Stewart
Sullivan high school students walk by the casket of a crash victim as the mother, played by SHS social studies teacher Marsha Kirby and pastor Bil Reedy look on solemnly. Though pretend, the casket and actors were part of last Thursday’s very serious presentation on the perils of both drunk driving and texting and driving.

Prom-wreck simulation adds tragic story to presentation

April 29, 2015

by Keith Stewart
keith@newsprogress.com

Last Thursday morning wasn’t your typical prom-wreck simulation at Sullivan High School. Though still present were the moving portrayals of a drunk teenager stumbling out of her car, “blood” smeared on her face, local police and emergency responders rushing onto the scene–also known as the north high school parking lot–and a motionless body in the back seat of another badly damaged car, this year’s simulation was also accompanied by a presentation by Samantha Kater, a former Charleston resident who in 2011 was directly involved in a fatal DUI that killed her best friend.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.