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Summit Pork opened its 6,250-head swine finishing operation in Gage County's Hanover Township in 2023. Summit Pork’s owner, Bruce Rastetter, gave $50,000 to Gov. Jim Pillen’s 2022 gubernatorial campaign, according to state campaign finance records. Photo by Eric Gregory for the Flatwater Free Press

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Hailey Goering, right, checks on her friends, Maddie Howard, left, and Colton Stankoski, background. Goering was the driver of the vehicle, who lost control and flipped the car on its top. Democrat photos

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Peighton Eisenmenger has make-up applied Monday morning at the Humphrey Fire & Rescue Station. She portrayed the victim of a drunk-driving accident.

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The Humphrey Rescue Unit works the mock accident Monday morning on the gravel road outside of Humphrey. The scene depicts a drunk driver who causes the death of one and serious injuries to two others. Democrat photos

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Colton Stankoski is lifted into a LifeNet helicopter during Monday’s mock accident.

It seems so real

Mock accident brings reality of drinking and driving to life

The screams, the cries for help, the body bag. It all seemed so real.

This time it was just a drill, but the message was clear: Next time it could be real.

The Humphrey Fire & Rescue Unit staged a mock accident on the gravel road outside of Humphrey Monday morning to teach students from St. Francis and Humphrey High, that drinking and driving and distracted driving can have fatal consequences.

The message hit home for the four students taking part in the simulation, and hopefully, for those students lined up watching the scene.

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