MOSES LAKE - The responders were real, but the crash was fake.

Big Bend Community College and the Central Basin Traffic Safety Task Force hosted the fifth annual Community Partnership Against Substance Abuse Thursday. The event featured a mock car crash simulating an accident caused by a drunk driver.

Police cars, fire trucks and ambulances arrived at the scene, as well as a hearse to respond to a staged casualty.

Whitney Sell, a senior at Moses Lake High School and a running start student at BBCC, played the drunk driver in the faux crash.

"It was weird," she said. "It was a lot harder than I thought it'd be. And those (field sobriety) tests take a long time."

She said the event reinforced the danger of driving under the influence.

"Don't drink and drive," she said. "That's just stupidity."