July 13th, 2009, roughly two weeks after Lindenhurst Senior High School graduation, Christopher Fox was killed. Christopher happened to be one of the students who had graduated with the Lindenhurst class of 2009. On this tragic day, Chris was driving on his way home from the beach with a group of his friends in his 1993 volvo when he swerved off the road and crashed into a sand dune. Fox, who was not wearing his seatbelt was partly ejected from the vehicle, and partly drunk.
At Lindenhurst High School, there is a drunk driving program called Shattered Dreams. There is not many schools that have this program, so it is good to know the LHS takes this issue very seriously. This program has select senior students from the school participate in a fake drunk driving situation where they make a video of a fake party where everyone is drinking and pretend to have someone leave "drunk" with a bunch of people in the car and crash. When the video gets to the point after the crash, the assembly is taken outside, and then the select seniors act out the rest of the crash, while the rest of the seniors and juniors from the school watch. This assembly shows the crashed cars, the people injured, and the person who dies from the crash on the ground. The seniors act out how they would react, and the "drunk" driver gets arrested by a real police officer as the body is being taken away in an ambulance. After this, another video is shown of the funeral and what the drunk driver and the friends had to say. This is shown before prom so people think twice before driving drunk. Christopher Fox was one of the students watching this assembly, but unfortunately and ironically, a month after this was shown, he was killed by a drunk driving accident.
Although no one deserves something like this to happen to them, it seems to be a wake up call for all the kids who graduated with Chris. The memorial made for Chris on the way home from the beach reminds everyone to slow down and think before they get behind the wheel of a car after a couple drinks. Lindenhurst tries to help the kids of the town understand that they aren't invincible, and that it can happen to anyone. LHS wants everyone to feel that before they think "it will never happen to me", they should think again.
R.I.P. Christopher Fox
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May 27, 1991 - July 13, 2009
Lindenhurst teen dies in Ocean Parkway car crash
Police are investigating a fatal accident that killed one Lindenhurst teenage and caused three others in the vehicle minor injuries on Monday afternoon. Investigators believe that it was a combination of both speeding and alcohol.
At about 4:11 p.m. Monday afternoon a 1993 Volvo went off the road and went into a sand dune, police said. Christopher Fox, driver, was not wearing a seatbelt and was partly ejected from the vehicle as the car overturned. Police are investigating if Fox was under the influence of alcohol.
State Police Sgt. Scott Crawford said Fox and the three other passengers in the vehicle were taken to Good Samaritan Hospital for treatment.
The cause for the accident is still being investigated.
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