2613299's blog: "Life Changing Events"

  Well,this is for all you who like to go out drinking and don't use designated drivers!  On Mother's Day 2004 I was Managing a local convenience store when something made me look up and stare down the highway.  Thats when a large SUV caught my eye.  It ran the red light in the middle of town and then came barreling through the emergency signal.  They driver tried to change lanes and over steered careening her into the vehicle of a detention deputy on her way to my store.  The effects of what happen next will forever play in my mind.  When her vehicle hit the deputy's it ricocheted it onto the store property.  It came inches from killing one of my customers as it crossed our property airborn.  It then struck the other gas pump sending it into the McDonald's parking lot on the next block along with a large 500 lb cement trash can.  The driver, a 19 yr old female, was ejected and her body wrapped around the awning pole.  her right arm was severed and flung several feet from her body.  I can still see her limp body sliding down that pole!  I still see her SUV doing somersaults end over end landing also in the McDonald's parking lot.  This young girl died on that property that day as I stood watching, it was a Sunday morning and a couple of the local pastors were in my store when it all happened and just as she slipped away to deaths door, they gave her last rights.  She had been out drinking all night with her friends and was rushing to work, for which she was late.  If nothing else I hope this will make someone think before drinking.  Not after when it's too late, but make you plan before you even go out.  How will you go home?  Will you be totally 100% sober before you need to drive again the next day?  Is it worth my life and the life of anyone else if I choose to drink and drive?  Because I tell you it is not worth it, that day a daughter, sister, friend, girlfriend was lost.  Please plan ahead!