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Volunteer to help educate children on passenger safety. Participants will volunteer to participate in Ollie Otter presentations, interacting with elementary school children to promote child passenger safety. Opportunities for Service Learning hours/credit may be available depending on your high school’s required curriculum. The Ollie Otter Booster Seat and Seat Belt program is grant-funded through the Tennessee Highway Safety Office (THSO). The THSO has been integral in the inception and continued success of the Ollie Otter program.
Connect with school groups such as SADD, FFA, 4-H, HOSA, or other traffic safety organizations to get started. Setting up a Mock Crash can involve many different groups in the school. Consider talking with the drama club, cosmology, and others at your school.
Work on obtaining community support from local law enforcement and medical professionals, as well as local media members.
Gather student volunteers to help implement the mock crash.
Set a date, time, and location that is conducive to the entire region, including multiple schools/districts.
Set up the wrecked car and victims.
Have local law enforcement and paramedics demonstrate what happens when they arrive on the scene after an impaired driving crash. Ask them to arrest the impaired driver and strap the victims to a backboard or pronounce them dead, and cover them with a sheet.
Discuss the event. Elicit comments from the people who performed the emergency services, friends, and family of the “deceased,” and participants who witnessed the event.
Have a photo ready with students completing the activity and click Submit Points. This activity can be submitted 1 time per school.
