Forty students killed by drink-drivers and a serious crash on the school grounds made for a horror week at Okaihau College.
Fortunately, the deaths and the crash were not real but part of an awareness week at the Far North school organised by Students Against Driving Drunk.
The week's activities
included competitions, videos and a "Dead Day" with close to 40 students spending the day dressed in black to represent the young people killed on New Zealand roads each year as a result of drink-driving. Each wore a sign describing how they "died".
To cap off the week, a mock car crash was staged on Friday.
Student actors Connacht Lawrence and Leah Hamlin were driver and passenger in a car which had slammed into a pohutukawa tree on the school grounds; the rest of the school watched as St John Ambulance, Kaikohe police and Okaihau Fire Brigade worked to extract and save the "victims".
