More than 4,000 driving-age teens in Hall County will get a dose of reality-based shock drama next week.

Fatal Vision, a program put on by the Hall County Sheriff’s Office at a local football field, will employ everything from a medical helicopter to the Grim Reaper to emphasize the dangers of poor decisions behind the wheel.

“Our goal is not to frighten the kids,” said Lt. Gene Joy, commander of school-based programs for the sheriff’s office. “We want to open their eyes to the consequences of drinking and driving, and also texting and driving. I think it’s going to send a strong message.”

Every year the sheriff’s office sponsors a “ghost out” skit, in which high school juniors and seniors act out the roles of drivers and passengers killed in car crashes.

This year’s Fatal Vision program goes a step further by having an actor dressed as the Grim Reaper randomly pull teens out of the bleachers every 15 minutes to illustrate a statistic — across the U.S., a teen is killed in a car crash every 15 minutes.

The program will be put on at the East Hall High School football stadium, with students from all six Hall County high schools visiting on different days to see it. Some high schools could not put on the program themselves because their tracks would be damaged by heavy emergency vehicles.

“We wanted to make it available for all the students, because this message is so important,” Joy said.

Joy said he doesn’t want to give away the program, but it will include wrecked cars, a hearse, and, weather permitting, an Emory Lifeflight helicopter.

“We’ve had a tremendous outpouring of local volunteers to help us deliver this message to our kids,” he said. “We can’t predict the future, but we can certainly try to prepare for it.”