SHEPERDSVILLE , Ky. — Students at North Bullit High School on Friday celebrated the Day of Shattered Dreams, an immersive experience showing the dangers of drinking and driving. 

What You Need To Know

  • There were over 11,000 drunk-driving deaths in 2020 

  • The Day of Shattered Dreams has been honored for more than 30 years at North Bullit High School

  • The high school partners with local fire and police departments to create the scene
  • Carrollton bus collision survivor warned students of the impacts drunk driving creates

North Bullit High School Youth Services Center partnered with Zoneton fire and police department to reenact a deadly drunk driving accident. It included wrecked cars, first responders and a helicopter. 

Firemen extracted actors from the simulated crash site, performed a field sobriety test and had a mock funeral. 

Students also heard from 1988 Carrollton bus collision survivor Quinton Higgins. 

"I'm speaking for the ones that don’t have voices anymore. Hoping that this changes some people’s lives," said Higgins. 

Twenty-seven lives were lost in the Carrollton bus collision. It is the deadliest drunk driving incident in history. 

According to the United States Department of Transportation, there were over 11,000 deaths from drunk driving incidents in 2020. 

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