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Daughter's friends hit by drunk driver

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PLEASE PRAY!

On Sunday early-evening, three teens from our area were sitting at a stop-light by our home and were rear-ended by a drunk driver going in access of 85 miles per hour, on a 50 mile per hour road. One of the teens was riding in the back seat and is in critical condition. The 2 girls in the front seat received minor injuries. Sean was pronounced dead on the scene, but due to the quick thinking of a good samaritan and the EMT/Officer who arrived, he was saved.

He crushed every bone in his face, from my understanding, his face is gone from the cheek bones down. The plastic surgeons at the hospital said this is the worst trauma they have ever seen. Up to this point, he has undergone 2-8 hour surgeries... but has countless more to go. His prognosis is improving each hour. He came out of his coma on Tuesday. If you know Sean, you know he is a fighter.

The man who was driving has had 3 prior drunk driving convictions... the last was June. He had his car taken away from him in June, but was able to get another. He was at a local restaurant with friends and the bar refused to serve him anything else. He became irrate and left the bar. His friends remained. He proceeded to speed away from the bar and this is when the accident happened. How senseless!

Our community is devastated by this accident. Sean was going to be entering his senior year of HS... instead he will be fighting for his life and facing a long painful recovery.

Please keep him, his family, and our community in your prayers. Every pray helps.
 
I am praying right now; this is heartbreaking. And so senseless. Why, oh why do people drink and drive? And why did no one stop this person from getting into a car when he left he bar?
 
Unfortunately our legal system is very lenient with drunk drivers. Suspending a license will not keep the drunks off the road. It is very easy to drive without a license. I have been hit by illegal aliens twice.

I am glad your daughter is OK. We will pray forher friend.
 
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Senseless tragedy. I will pray for Sean and his family.

Repeat offenders are a terrible problem. Maybe society needs to license cars like they do guns, certain criminals can't legally buy a gun. The penalty has to fit the crime or nothing changes.
 
This is so awful. I will be praying. :( :bawl:

The courts should attach ankle bracelets for repeat offenders and make them stay home and just let them go to work via the bus.

These criminals can have their groceries delivered and get drunk by themselves in their own homes.
 
Prayers going your way.

So sad to see something so terrible happen. That driver should not have been on the road and will never learn a lesson.

Hope for continued progress and glad the other people in car ok.
 
This is so tragic. I'm praying for Sean. Please keep us up-to-date on his condition.
 
So sorry for this tragedy. Already sent up prayers for Sean and his family.
 
It hurts me to hear this and I can't imagine what the family is going though! My prayers are coming to Sean and his family.When two or three come together in my name ,I will always be there.Amen
 
Oh, good grief! Some things are unexplainable. Why wasn't the guy put away? "There's no room" for them.??? I'm adding my prayers for Sean and his family. That poor child! Jean
 
I will say a prayer for them as well..




now is the time for states to institute a 3 strikes and you go to prison for 10 yrs for drunk driving.

get 2 in 1yr, go to jail for 15 yrs.. no parole, 15 yrs hard time.

most likely the drunk driver got out without a scratch. to bad, he needed to die.
 
Oh how awful for these kids and their families and friends. It's infuriating, and incomprehensible, that too many people make the choice to drink and drive.

Sean will have a very difficult road ahead of him. Several years ago a family friend suffered similar injuries when her car was hit head-on; this is a story about her surgeon that tells of her ordeal. (Note the error in the story's first line should read, "In 2002, then 22..." She was a beautiful college sophomore when it happened in 2002 and after a very long rehab/recovery span is now a beautiful, successful college graduate. I hope and pray that Sean will someday be able to begin his life anew as well.
 
SueDonJ, that was such an interesting article. I sincerely hope Sean will have a similar story to tell when he has recovered from this accident. Thanks for the link.
 
My thoughts and prayers are with you, Sean and his family. What a senseless tragedy.

Dori
 
I feel sad for the Sean, and also for his family and all they will have to endure. I also feel that we should have stronger penalties for drunk drivers...like losing their autos after a repeated offense, although if they want to drive, they will still find a way.

You might also want to use this as a learning experience for your own teen drivers. Teens often think they are invincible. I am guessing, because of the injury, that Sean did not have his seat belt on. That is a big problem with teens here. You might want to point this out to your teens. It is doubtful he would have been injured to the degree he was if he had a belt on.

I've thought long and hard before posting this. I know it is ugly, and flame me if you must. But it is also a learning experience for your children. Please use it.

Fern
 
I will pray for Sean. I do believe that good can emerge from tragedy. I hope this story will have a happy ending.
 
This kind of thing happens all too frequenty. So very sad.

While alcoholics/drunks drink and drive at all times of the day this tragedy happened Sunday evening), perhaps more are out on the roads on Friday and Saturday night. In the "think about it" category, many many years ago I asked DH to not go out late on those evenings (ie: after work happy hour). I was worried that he's be creamed by a drunk driver after he left the party. The one time DH got wasted, he did call and I went and got him - and his over the top co-workers too. I was worried that I'd be creamed getting them to their various homes! It can be very scary on the roads - and I am generally not a worry wart person.

I don't know how I am going to approach it exactly, but I plan on having a talk with DD about her being out late on the roads on the big drinking nights. I guess all I am saying is that I am trying to at least cut down the exposure risk where possible... along the lines of not going into certain areas alone/after dark, that kind of thing.
 
jlwquilter said:
I don't know how I am going to approach it exactly, but I plan on having a talk with DD about her being out late on the roads on the big drinking nights. I guess all I am saying is that I am trying to at least cut down the exposure risk where possible... along the lines of not going into certain areas alone/after dark, that kind of thing.
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This is one of the reasons Connecticut has new license restrictions for teens. The restriction on passengers and cell phones reduce the likelihood that they will be distracted, but the restriction on late-night driving also helps keep them out of harms way when the roads are more dangerous. Not that an experienced adult driver would be any safer in this situation, but that adult might be more likely to insist passengers wear seatbelts, and in some situations might be more in a position to avoid bad drivers.
 
Prayers for Sean and for the mental anguish that your neighborhood is experiencing. I pray that God will hold each of you tightly in His arms.
 
Tia said:
Senseless tragedy. I will pray for Sean and his family.

Repeat offenders are a terrible problem. Maybe society needs to license cars like they do guns, certain criminals can't legally buy a gun. The penalty has to fit the crime or nothing changes.
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Criminals will always find a way to get a gun. Not having a driver's license has never stopped a drunk driver from getting behind the wheel of a car.
 
If a multiple repeat offense DUI driver can't buy/register a car to get plates it might prevent some of these things. Why make it easy and legal for them was the intention.

30 years ago in Minn., when I lived there, I remember a story where a repeat offender who killed 3 pedestrians was released on early parole, he had spent very little time in jail. We have not come very far in finding a solution.

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Criminals will always find a way to get a gun. Not having a driver's license has never stopped a drunk driver from getting behind the wheel of a car.
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Susan. I'd like to thank you, too, for posting the link to the story about that plastic surgeon. It's amazing to read about what he's been able to do, and how he has changed lives. I hope that Sean survives, and finds such help.

Fern, your suggestion to use this tragedy as a learning tool for young people is an excellent idea. Jean


SueDonJ said:
Oh how awful for these kids and their families and friends. It's infuriating, and incomprehensible, that too many people make the choice to drink and drive.

Sean will have a very difficult road ahead of him. Several years ago a family friend suffered similar injuries when her car was hit head-on; this is a story about her surgeon that tells of her ordeal. (Note the error in the story's first line should read, "In 2002, then 22..." She was a beautiful college sophomore when it happened in 2002 and after a very long rehab/recovery span is now a beautiful, successful college graduate. I hope and pray that Sean will someday be able to begin his life anew as well.
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