Anyone Have Family/friends Killed By A Drunk Driver?

[PaulaSue]

My Uncle Steve's best friend died in an accident but I don't rmember if it was him that was drinking or another. Too many years ago.

 

[southernbella]

Easter Sunday, 2 years ago, my grandmother was killed by a drunk driver. My uncle & aunt who were in the car with her are still recovering. It was my dad's 70th birthday. He says he will never celebrate a birthday again.

Sbella

 

[Amlee]

I also have to add my uncle to this. While it didn't kill him. His life was forever changed. He was a Deputy Sheriff and was responding to a call of a drunk driver. He topped the hill and hit said drunk driver head on. It killed the 18 year old kid instantly. My uncle was knocked out. The car following the drunk driver stopped to help. It was 4 kids going to eat after their prom. My uncles car was on fire, and these teenagers climb into the car to help my uncle.

He came around enough to hear the girl screaming that his seat belt was stuck. Said he remembers reaching around and undoing his seatbelt. But it slid up under his gun. One of the guys had a knife and they managed to pull him out and get about 30 feet before his car blew up.

Ever bone in my uncles face was broke. His life was forever turned upside down because to the action of one stupid kid.


Also if you think DUI is NO BIG DEAL!! Read this families story!

http://www2.oprah.com/tows/slide/200706/20070601/slide_20070601_284_101.jhtml

 

[MinnieM21]

Yes, my uncle was killed by a drunk driver. The drunk driver had a suspended license at the time and after he killed my uncle, he didn't even go to jail.

 

[Flossbolna]

my best friend was hit by a car cycling to work in the morning. The driver was driving home after a wild party the night before and even though she had slept someplace, she still had enough alcohol in her blood to make her miss the bend of the road and hit my friend. He was not killed but suffered severe brain injury.

 

[Chelley00]

A friend of mine from high school stopped to help an elderly couple change a tire on the highway. A drunk driver swerved, ran over my friend's torso, killing him, and then sideswiped the front of the car, knocking it into the elderly man, sending him into the ditch. He also died. The elderly lady had injuries from the car grazing her side, but she then died of a heart attack a few days later.

The drunk driver continued on for miles before he finally hit a tree...and broke his finger on the airbag. He told the police he didn't remember hitting anything, but he thought he ran over an animal.

Colby had just gotten married 3 months before the accident.

 

[Smileybug]

My mother was killed by a drunk driver when I was seven. That was 38 years ago. The hurt and anger never really go away. They just fade into the back ground. You know, a girl just never out grows needing her mother.

 

[mylilnikita]

When I was in high school, a friend named Trent was killed by a drunk driver. There was a football game at a stadium that I now live close to and every time I drive by it, a couple times a week, I think of him or especially when a football game is playing there.
Trent and his friends were leaving the football game and as they left the parking lot onto the main road a police officer was directing traffic so the traffic could let out. Trent was in the passenger front and a drunk driver came and plowed into the car he was in. The other guys in the car weren't hurt badly, but he died instantly.
When I started drinking, I remembered what happened to Trent and I would just stay where I was or let someone who didn't drink drive me home.

 

[arminnie]

My brother's SIL suffered a severe head injury 24 years ago in a wreck caused by a drunk driver.

She lives with her family, but she has 24 hour nursing care. She is incontinent, fed primarily through a feeding tube, and bedridden or in a wheelchair if strapped in.

She cannot talk and has the mental capacity of about a 2 year old. This had been a vibrant young woman (23 years old) who had recently graduated from college.

Tragic is too mild a word.

My sister was also in the vehicle. She had major, major plastic surgery to restore her face and has been in pretty much constant pain all of these years. But we are so fortunate as she is mentally okay.

 

[C.Ann]

Yes - several.. The most heartbreaking was my cousins 5 year old son.. He was her first born..

Drunk driving laws - and penalties - should be much stronger than they currently are..

 

[Nancyg56]

Yes. My cousins wife was killed by a drunk driver. She left her husband with six young children. He had a stroke several months later and died. His brother, who had four kids took them all in and he and his wife raised all 10 children. We all felt he had a broken heart.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Don't know anyone who has been killed, but I am a paraplegic thanks to a drunk driver and I have no sympathy for them.

 

[Micca]

A friend of mine was killed in an accident but he was the drunk driver. He was a good guy and generally responsible. The night of the accident he was extremely tired and on cold medication. That turned out to be a deadly combination. Unfortunately a co-worker was also killed in the same vehicle.
The other driver was uninjured.

 

[holycow]

Yes, our good friend's in Jacksonville were killed.


Grandmom and Grandpop took the 3 children Christmas eve for a trip. While driving a drunk driver hit them head on. Killed Granddad. Injured the 12, 10 and 6 yr. old boy still has eye problems. They are all still emotionally traumatized by seeing their Grandfather killed.


It just PO me so bad!

Oh, in my area a father and son were just killed by a drunk driver (illegal no less) You may have read about it. He was the Producer for A Christmas Story. There are too many stories out there to just let this twit out of jail cause she can't hack it.

As Baretta used to say....you do the crime, you do the time~!

 

[Jo-Anne]

August 23, 1982 - my younger brother was killed by a drunk driver...who of course did not serve any time! I still remember every detail of my father calling me in the middle of the night to tell me and then I had to go and tell my sister. My mother was up at the cottage that night and there were no phones. We had to call the police to go and tell her. I get so sad every time I think of John - he was such a sweet and giving person. I tell my kids often about their Uncle and how much he would have loved them. The laws are so lax on drunk drivers. The weapon they choose to kill with is the car - they should be treated as tho they had a gun in their hands IMHO.

 

[shamrock30]

My young cousin, 20, killed himself in a drunk driving accident. Luckily, no one else was involved. It was absolutely heartbreaking.

 

[apirateslifeforme]

My cousin's husband was the drunk driver. He didn't hit a person, but he wrapped his car around a utility pole and literally broke his face. That was a pretty big deal to him.

 

[LadyyRedd]

When I was about 9, my mom, sis and I went with my mom's friend's family to Mississippi for the Thanksgiving holiday. On the drive back, we were in two cars. In our car was my mom, me, my sis and one of the other family's kids. In their car was two parents and other 2 kids.

In Tennessee....a drunk driver came up over the hill in the opposite direction, hit Friend's car head on and my mom saw them go over the embankment. He then hit my mom's bright yellow Firebird and totalled it. My mom had to watch all of this happen.

When everything came to a stop, my mom was out of the car screaming into the night that she was going to kill him. The drunk driver was so afraid that she would, that he went and got a cop himself. My mom still had no idea how Friend's family was.

They took everyone to the hospital to be checked. All 8 people walked with barely a scratch. God was truly looking out for us that night.

And to top it off, insurance was not required back then in Tennessee. My mom's car wasn't salvageable.

I have absolutely no tolerance for driving after drinking. I don't even drive after 1 drink because I know how much it affects me.

Kimya

 

[tiggersmom2]

My cousin is a habitual drunk driver. He just got his *4th* DUI and has not served but 2 weeks in jail. For his third DUI, he was put on house arrest and his license suspended......he drove on a suspended licensed DRUNK and got out in 2 weeks!!!

I don't get it. I love him very much, but don't understand why he isn't locked up and the key thrown away. He says he isn't an alcoholic.....I don't know, it is frustrating that he is allowed to keep endangering lives.

 

[Microcell]

My grandmother, never got to meet her, and it caused my mom to start drinking (though she NEVER drove drunk) which led to her dying at 43.