By Alex Otte It might sound strange to say, but today, I celebrate 11 years since the day my life was forever changed because of one man’s wrong choice. I say “celebrate,” even though the day...
Category: Drunk Driving
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,”...
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...
Faith had reached her breaking point. After enduring months of cyber bullying, the young teen learned that an online admirer wasn’t an admirer at all — but a classmate playing a cruel prank. She swiped...
The beginning of 2009 seemed to be the average, expected year for the North Star High School freshman, John Austin Blough, better known by all as...
Written by Victim Services Specialist Kelley Dair My twin brother Scott called me every week or two. He had so much on his plate – working full time, going to school in the evenings, and being...
By Jenny Reyes For the last five years of his life, my father, Walter...
In 2012, on a Sunday afternoon, while driving along beautiful Lake Tahoe, I was hit head-on by a very drunk driver. The DUI driver, who was intoxicated...