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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can anyone think of something to do that will make this more "real" to the kids than a memorial by the side of the road?  What can one possibly do to have this terrible accident serve as a deterrent to other kids? other parents who condone drinking? Is there anything?[/quote]

Put the car in front of the school along with details about the crash including not wearing seat belts.

Leave it there for the first week of school.

Then move it to other schools in the area.

Include pictures of the boys killed and a description of their goals and dreams.

That is what I would do.

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Exactly this is done every year at every high school in the area.  It's sponsored by SADD, among others, I'm sure.  
You don't understand the teenage brain even though you had one once.  
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These boys are their classmates and friends.[b] It will make an impact, especially while it is so fresh.[/b][/quote]

No it won't.  A classmate of the drunk girl who split her brand new beamer in half in 1995 killing one passenger and paralyzing another made a PSA with actual footage of kids from the same h.s. getting really drunk at parties.  You can bet the odds that there weren't designated drivers, just kids who were lucky they weren't in a horrific crash.

We will never know the how many kids drive home drunk.  The kids who get the message are the ones who don't get into a car with a driver who is drunk.  However, if you're drinking as well your judgement might not be the best.

It boggles the mind that the parents of Sam Ellis allowed their son to continue to drive when this wasn't the first time he drove drunk.  Yes, he'd gotten some citations.  But what about all the times he drove home drunk from a party--the times he wasn't caught?

I doubt even if the kids were wearing seatbelts that they would have survived the mangled rubble of the car that went air born, hit a tree and flipped.  Yes, there will probably be lawsuits for the party hosts and the parents of the driver.  Cold comfort--it won't bring the dead back.[/quote]

+1 to all of this. [/quote]

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