Colonial Funeral Home Clinger Jared

It was all designed to drive home a point one week before Pocatello High holds its prom night.“It definitely works,” said Pocatello High Principal Lisa Delonas. “We do this each year a week before the prom, which will be held April 18.”As a follow-up to Thursday’s mock accident with emergency response, students will present a video of the entire event, including a mock trial where the drunk female student driver is convicted of DUI today at a 9 a.m. school assembly.The deadly two-car accident was staged at the intersection of North Arthur and Lander streets with full participation by Pocatello’s police and fire departments. Once the wrecked cars were positioned, students with fake blood and injuries were put into position before Pocatello High’s student body came outside to watch the response to the accident.A public address system was tied into police dispatch.As students stood watching, the PA system announced there was a two-car accident with multiple injuries.One girl appeared to be bleeding heavily and was lying along side a smashed car on North Arthur. As police vehicles, fire trucks and ambulances arrived, Pocatello Police Chief Scott Marchand walked out into the street dressed all in black as the Grim Reaper. He stood next to the lifeless body of the teen girl as emergency crews removed other students from the vehicles.Eventually, an EMT made the call for a hearse. The girl was dead and her body was covered.Shortly after the hearse from Colonial Funeral Home arrived and mortician Jared Clinger began to inspect the scene, the dead girl’s “mother” arrived. She ran to the covered body of the girl and began screaming in anguish.Pocatello High School student Breanna Casper said that was what hit her the hardest.“I cried when the mom came out,” Casper said.The moment impacted Marchand as he watched Clinger comfort the devastated parent in front of the school’s students dressed in his black cloak.“I think it not only hits the kids, it hits the parents involved,” Marchand said.Marchand credited School Resource Officer... (Idaho State Journal)