Mock wreck drill at White River Valley High brings message of making wise choices on Prom Night

Students at White River Valley High School in Switz City conducted a mock wreck drill on Wednesday morning to call attention to the dangers of being intoxicated and driving a vehicle. The project was coordinated by the WRV Leadership group and its sponsor Mike Karr along with school resource officer Scott Allen. The program is part of a week-long education program on alcohol abuse and the dangers of driving while intoxicated. The school will conduct its annual prom Saturday night.

Leadership team member Jordan McHenry was pronounced dead at the wreck scene. She was not wearing a seat belt and was thrown from the car.

Indiana State Police troopers arrive on the scene. Overhead, an AirEvac helicopter is preparing to land to care for one seriously injured passenger.

Passenger Conner Hill was seriously hurt and had to be airlifted to a hospital.

WRV High School students look on as the mock wreck disaster unfolds.

Conner Hill.

Jordan McHenry

Greene County Ambulance Service's Jonathan Lamanske and AirEvac personnel prepare to load Conner Hill onto the medical helicopter.

Students view the covered body of Jordan McHenry during Wednesday morning mock wreck drill in the WRV school parking lot.

Fairplay-Grant Township Fire Chief Bryan Woodall, at left, and fire department Capt. Steve Shadoin, work to open the door on the wrecked vehicle with the 'Jaws of Life' equipment.

Greene County Ambulance Service personnel Grant Thornton, Jonathan Lamanske and Amanda Staggs surround accident victim Conner Hill before moving him from the scene by helicopter.

Indiana State Trooper Richard Klun talks with the vehicle driver, Colton Gregory. Gregory was suspected of being drunk.

Vehicle driver Colton Gregory tries to pass the sobriety field test being administered by ISP Trooper Richard Klun.

Colton Gregory reacts to being told he must undergo a portable breathalizer test because he is suspected of being a drunk driver in a wreck where one person is dead and two others hospitalized. Gregory suffered minor injuries.

Trooper Richard Klun, at left, administers a portable breathalizer test on vehicle driver Colton Gregory.

ISP Trooper Richard Klun places Colton Gregory in his police cruiser to transport him to jail. Looking on is ISP Trooper Eric Nash.

Fairplay-Grant Volunteer Fire Department Bryan Woodall and Capt. Steve Shadoin work on the extrication.

The cloth draped body of accident victim Jordan McHenry.

Greene County Ambulance Service personnel Samantha Thornton and Amanda Staggs prepare a cot while Fairplay-Grant Fire Department firefighters work on opening the driver's side door.

In the foreground, back seat passenger Jesse McDonald is placed on a stretcher by Amanda Staggs of the Greene County Ambulance Service. In the background, ambulance workers Jonathan Lamanske, at left, and Granrt Thornton wheel accident victim, Conner Hill to a waiting helicopter.

WRV School District Superintendent Bob Hacker addressed the students following the drill encouraging them to be smart and make wise decisions when it comes to the consumption of alcoholic beverages.