Accident simulation at WNHS on Monday

Gus Philpott
Woodstock Advocate
April 28, 2011

When you drive by Woodstock North High School on Monday afternoon, May 2, and see scores of emergency equipment and maybe even the Flight-for-Life helicopter, don't worry. It's a training exercise (an expensive one, for sure), designed to scare high school students into safer driving practices and care during prom season.

The Woodstock Fire Rescue District will be simulating a two-car crash at WNHS. WFRD personnel will stage the extrication of victims from vehicles, and a Flight-for-Life helicopter may participate, weather permitting. Since Flight-for-Life bills $6,000 to start up the helicopter, who is paying for that?

This training exercise and demonstration is scheduled for 1:45PM. If you are driving on Raffel Road or on school grounds, please mind your driving. Hopefully, WFRD will place adequate warning signs on Raffel Road that the event is a training exercise, not the "real thing."

Perhaps D-200 personnel will see the wisdom of informing parents and students that this is a drill. Advance notice of this type will alleviate concern and hundreds of phone calls to the school. As of now, nothing is posted on the WNHS webpage.