When students from all four grades at Salisbury High School left their classrooms recently to attend an outdoor assembly in the bus drop-off area in front of their school, they were greeted with the site of a mock accident depicting terrible consequences.

The simulated reality of two serious injuries, a fatality and a fellow student arrested and hauled off in handcuffs after failing a field sobriety test, was meant to be that “ounce of prevention” members of the high school’s Students Against Destructive Decisions chapter and the Salisbury Police Department School Resource Officer Richard Nothstein, were attempting to convey on the dangers of drinking and driving as students approached their prom weekend.