NILES — Prom season and high school graduation are just around the corner. Unfortunately some students may be tempted to drink and get behind the wheel. Niles High School wants to prevent that so they staged a drunken driving crash with students as victims.

One person is killed every 15 minutes in an alcohol related crash.

"It's actually realizing that this could happen to your friends. It could happen to you and you could know people that are affected by it," said Chelsea McIntyre, a junior at Niles High School.

Students watched in the rain as their classmates were pulled from the staged car wreckage. Friends of the victims got the message.

"That could be prom night, you sitting there watching your friend get put on a stretcher and carried away," said Nichol Pyne, also a junior at Niles High School.

The drunk driver in the mock crash was taken away in handcuffs, the victims in an ambulance.

"A teacher telling them not to drink and drive is one thing, but when its classmates and upperclassmen who are the leaders of the school, I think it hits home," said teacher Jamie Foster.

And for these students it did. They say they won't be doing any drinking and driving.

The students weren't allowed to talk to the mock victims who died for the day. They will hold a mock memorial service for them on Friday.