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To all the patrol officers, detectives, DUI task force officers… From Susie Spoolstra-Kelley Zachary Spoolstra’s “Momma” I first want to thank you for reading my story, and I want to thank you on behalf of my experience with all of the officers that I have...
Less than 100 miles from my home in Lexington, Kentucky, a simple green sign marks the site of the deadliest drunk driving crash in U.S. history. On May 14, 1988, a wrong-way driver with a blood alcohol concentration three times today’s legal limit crashed head-on...
I remember my mother in fragments. I know that her name was Terri and that she was 44 when I was born. I know that we lived in a one-bedroom apartment in San Diego, just the two of us and our cat. I know we...
Millions of Americans are affected by crime every year, their lives forever altered by a specific moment in time, and for most, things will never be the same again. I don’t believe that there is any “getting back to normal” after such an experience, what’s...
Two drunk drivers changed my family’s life forever. On April 10, 2016, my three children, 15-year-old Kaylee, 6-year-old Khaiden, 4-year-old Samuel, and I went to a housewarming party for Khaiden’s godbrother. It was a sunny day near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, plenty warm for the kids...
BRETT’S STORY: THE DAY THAT CHANGED OUR LIVES FOREVER By Chrissie Poarch (Aunt) My heart sank on Sunday morning, September 17, 2017, when my mother and I watched a Georgia State Patrol trooper and a coroner walk up our sidewalk. Everything went into slow motion...
Texas Pictures is an industrial video production company. We were established 14 years ago and much of our work is training or promotional productions for businesses. We also frequently work with law enforcement agencies to create productions that help to train officers or increase awareness...
In a hospital room where her daughter lies unconscious, a tearful mother shares what she has learned from doctors: the girls’ blood work has come back positive for alcohol. “She doesn’t even know how to drive,” the mother laments, “and she was driving under the...
Corporal Casey Hancuff Boise Police Department Boise, Idaho Cpl. Hancuff has made impaired driving education and enforcement the focus of his career. There is no doubt it has made a difference. Since joining the Boise Police Department’s Night STEP team in 2004, he has made...
By Alex Otte At age 13, I understood the consequences of drinking alcohol and getting behind the wheel. That’s how old I was when a drunk boater ran over me while I sat on a jet ski behind my dad’s house in the summer of...