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By DEBORAH FLINCHUM
Rappahannock News Special Writer
“Don’t let prom night last forever!” read a sign on a wrecked car parked behind Rappahannock County High School.
A 17-year-old girl from another locality was killed in the car in an alcohol related accident. Mike Brown of B & B Service Center towed the car to the school for a project of the school’s club, Rappahannock Students Against Drunk Driving (RADD).
RADD was an outgrowth of the national organization Students Against Drunk Driving (SADD).
According to student organizer Kristi Pendleton, SADD was founded in September 1981 by Robert Anastas, director of health education of Wayland High School in Wayland, Mass.
Through one of Mr. Anastas’ programs in health his students becaine aware of the statistics as being real people and not just numbers.
One statistic he quoted was that death due to drinking is the number one killer of teenagers.
Last year Virginia held a threeday seminar at Radford University . on drunk driving and drug related accidents in which Kristi participated.
She said, “I heard things and saw statistics that I couldn’t believe. So I decided to pass on the information to students here at school.”
“We had a speaker from the seminar come and talk to us here. He was very dynamic. A lot of people came out crying. His daughter had been killed in an accident. He had some people stand up and he quoted statistics that said that many people will die because of drinking accidents,” Kristi concluded.
RADD meets every other Wednesday to discuss statistics and projects that could be done to make the students more aware of the hazards of drinking and driving.
The club is open to any student who is wholeheartedly concerned about the problem of drunk drivers.
Kristi explained the significance of the wrecked car. “You can see the original beer bottles in it that she was drinking from. There is a shoe in the back seat and blood stains on the seat.”
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