This is Homecoming week at Burke High School, a time for school spirit and celebrations.
On Wednesday morning more than a thousand juniors and seniors got a crash course in the dangers of drinking and driving.
As the students walked outside to the parking lot, they saw two cars involved in a mock crash. Several students were in the vehicles portraying accident victims. Some were bloody, crying and screaming as they crawled out of the crashed cars.
Soon, Omaha police and fire were on the scene tending to the victims and arresting Alise Manley is the student who portrayed the drunk driver that resulted in her passenger being killed.
She tells NewsRadio 1110 KFAB participating in the drill was an eye opening experience. "Now it's more ingrained in my brain. Anything can happen. I could have been the one dead. Getting in the handcuffs and the cop car, that was really surreal."
Omaha firefighters and police officers showed up to tend to the victims. One was put one on a stretcher and into an ambulance after being freed from the wreckage.
The drill also included a mother who came to the scene to find her daughter dead. Omaha Police say this is the largest mock drill they have ever conducted and hope that it prevents these teens from being involved in a real life crash.
There have been 28 fatal crashes in the city of Omaha in 2017, many caused by drivers who had too much to drink.