Vallejo's Jesse Bethel High School students experience powerful, two-day safe driving lesson

. Day 1 - The crash

Jesse Bethel High School senior Janelle Ramirez got a taste Thursday of what it must be like to die. The 17-year-old popular cheerleader "died at the scene" of a car crash in the school parking lot as part of an ongoing program called "Every 15 Minutes."

"It feels surreal," Ramirez said, as she waited, with gory-looking injuries, complete with a piece of glass imbedded in her forehead, to be placed on the hood of the wrecked car through whose windshield she was to be fictitiously thrown.

Vallejo's Jesse Bethel High School students experience powerful, two-day safe driving lesson