Lompoc High School to Participate in Every 15 Minute Program Tuesday and Wednesday

Lompoc High School will be hosting the “Every 15 Minutes” program. This program was  developed to prevent teen drinking and driving, the Every 15 Minutes program is one of several  teen driving programs the California Highway Patrol (CHP) is involved in with the goal of  reducing crashes, and fatalities among teenagers.

However, this program helps the students see  the impact of the tragedy from a different perspective, through the eyes of their family and  friends.  

• The two-day program focuses on high school juniors and seniors, challenging them to think  about drinking, driving, personal safety, and the responsibility of making mature decisions which  could impact family, friends, and others. 

• Every 15 Minutes program dramatically presents, through realistic demonstrations, the effects a fatality crash caused by an impaired driver has on a school, the families and a community. • Volunteer students are taken from their classrooms every 15 minutes to represent the “victims”  of a multiple fatal DUI collision. The student body witnesses a wrecked vehicle, brought to the  campus, and watch as emergency crews demonstrate efforts to extricate the “victims” from the vehicle.
• The collision scene will be held on April 2, 2025, approximately 11:30 a.m. • At the end of the first day, the volunteering living-dead, are taken to an overnight retreat where  they hear first-hand from people who have been involved in or are affected by an incident  involving alcohol. The students write letters to their loved ones expressing thoughts they would  convey if they had not been “killed” on that particular day. 

• On day two, a student body assembly is held. The assembly will be held on April 3, 2025 at  the Cabrillo High School Auditorium at 11:00 a.m. 

• The Every 15 Minutes program is presented after months of planning and meetings involving  school officials, law enforcement, firefighters, community hospitals, emergency medical  responders, chaplains, counselors, judiciary, community groups, local businesses and parents. Funding for this program was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety,  through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.