Police briefs

The Huntington Beach Foundation, Promoting Resources in Drug Education

received a $7,000 donation from The Boeing Company for its Every 15

Minutes anti-drunk driving campaign.

For the last five years the foundation has held a two-day program at

one of the high schools in Huntington Beach to educate the students about

traffic collisions related to drunk driving. The hope is to decrease the

number of accidents involving a driver under the influence of alcohol or

drugs.

Ocean View High School will host the two-day event planned for the

spring.

Lt. Chuck Thomas of the Huntington Beach Police Department said

students will participate in discussion groups, watch a video and reenact

a fatal traffic collision. The donation from Boeing will be used to rent

bleachers for the children to sit on, to produce a video shown to the

entire student body and for miscellaneous costs such as T-shirts, Thomas

said.

The Every 15 Minutes program got its name five-years ago when one

person in the United States was dying every 15 minutes from a traffic

collision involving a drunk driver.

In Huntington Beach, 103 out of 1,579 traffic collisions in involved a

drunk driver, while three out of 11 traffic fatalities in the city

involved a drunk driver.