Dozens of Forsyth County high school students got a tough lesson on the dangers of disobeying traffic rules. The group was ordered by the Forsyth County Juvenile Court to tour McDonald & Son Funeral Home and Crematory in Cumming.
“This is reality right here, reality because the decisions you are making are going to kill you,” said Rick Wiggins, the funeral director.
The students winced as they saw very graphic pictures from traffic accidents and jaywalkers killed on video. Seventeen of the students were from Lambert High School in Forsyth County and received tickets for jaywalking along Atlanta Road and Nichols Road.
The Forsyth County Juvenile Court ordered others there for offenses like rolling a stop sign and speeding.
The students visited the embalming room, and the crematory.
“You are going in that machine right there for three hours at 1,675 degrees,” Wiggins said.
The program finished with students reading aloud their own obituaries to their parents, who were required to attend.
“I’d much rather be able to see it in a video and stop it from happening then have him or anybody else go through that,” Jerry Martin, a parent, told Channel 2’s Rachel Stockman.
“I learned what being in that situation does to the people around me, and it encourages me to make better decisions,” student Troy Martin said.
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