RUMFORD — Every 15 minutes Tuesday, a student will be removed from a classroom at Mountain Valley High School to illustrate how often someone dies from an alcohol-related crash in the United States.

The real-life dramatization is part of the Keeping Students Safe program and fashioned after the national Every 15 Minutes program.

Tuesday’s presentation is the result of months of effort by local police, high school staff and community members. A police officer, a counselor and someone dressed as the Grim Reaper will enter a classroom every 15 minutes to remove a student. A tombstone will be used, an obituary read and the student’s family notified of the death.

Rumford police Sgt. Tracey Higley, a major organizer of the local program Every 15 Minutes, said 18 classrooms will be entered and similar actions taken throughout the day.

At about 10:30 a.m., a mock drunken-driving crash will be staged in the parking lot of the high school and several students will be declared “dead” and one arrested and taken to jail.

“All the activities will be as true to life as we can manage,” Higley said in a news release.

On Wednesday morning at a school-wide assembly, a parent who has lost a child to an accident and a parent whose child caused deaths in an accident will speak. A casket will be included in the presentation.

Five years ago, Mountain Valley High School and the Rumford Police Department began Keeping Students Safe to show students how to make good decisions. Once a week, representatives from the high school and Police Department met with students to discuss a variety of topics such as texting and driving, drinking and driving, seat belt safety and healthy relationships.

This year, the group decided to include the Every 15 Minutes program.