{"id":1618,"date":"2016-08-15T21:56:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T21:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madd.org\/tennessee\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2022-05-30T09:30:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T09:30:18","slug":"mitchell-pewitt-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madd.org\/tennessee\/mitchell-pewitt-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We&#8217;re Here:  Mitchell Pewitt, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1618\" class=\"elementor elementor-1618\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-24308b33 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"24308b33\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-221e09e6\" data-id=\"221e09e6\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6cf092e3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6cf092e3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1619 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/madd.org\/tennessee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2022\/05\/Mitch-Pewitt-Jr-207x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"Mitch Pewitt Jr\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\">A tow-headed blonde with an adorable smile:&nbsp; Mitchell \u201cMitch\u201d Pewitt, Jr., was loved by the whole family!&nbsp; He spent lots of time with his Uncle Roy and Aunt Millie.&nbsp; He was an energetic 19-month-old and he loved their daughter, Lori, his 4-year-old cousin.<\/p>\n<p>Mitch\u2019s uncle, his father\u2019s brother, had been in a car crash the night before.&nbsp; Mitch\u2019s parents, Mitchell and Becky, had stayed at the hospital with him.&nbsp; So little Mitch had spent the night with Roy and Millie.<\/p>\n<p>He was riding with them in their car on August 14, 1971, when a drinking driver with a BAC of .08 rear-ended them.&nbsp; The gas tank exploded and the car was sent flying.&nbsp; Mitch,&nbsp;<a title=\"Lori Webb was a sweet little 4-year-old with pigtails. \" href=\"https:\/\/madd.org\/tennessee\/why-were-here-lori-webb\/\" class=\"text-red\">Lori<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a title=\"Millie Webb never asked for this story. In fact, for as much good as she hopes she\u2019s accomplished, if she could trade all of it for a life without this story, she would. \" href=\"https:\/\/madd.org\/tennessee\/why-were-here-millie-webb\/\" class=\"text-red\">Millie&nbsp;<\/a>were thrown from the car.&nbsp; As it toppled over them, flames and gasoline spewed all over their bodies.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a title=\"Roy Webb married his beautiful bride, Millie, in the 60\u2019s. Just like many typical Americans, they had big plans and dreams for their future.\" href=\"https:\/\/madd.org\/tennessee\/why-were-here-roy-webb\/\" class=\"text-red\">Roy&nbsp;<\/a>ran to put out the flames using his bare hands, but Mitch was burned on 90% of his body.<\/p>\n<p>At the hospital, responders went upstairs to find Mitch\u2019s parents.&nbsp; They told Mitchell and Becky that they needed to come downstairs because their son was there\u2026 and he was dying.&nbsp; Mitch lived for six long, agonizingly painful hours before his death on August 15, 1971.<figure id=\"attachment_7737\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7737\" style=\"width: 203px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/madd.org\/tennessee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2022\/05\/Loris-last-BD-pic-with-Mitch-203x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7737\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mitch with Lori at her last birthday before the crash that killed them both.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tow-headed blonde with an adorable smile:&nbsp; Mitchell \u201cMitch\u201d Pewitt, Jr., was loved by the whole family!&nbsp; He spent lots of time with his Uncle Roy and Aunt Millie.&nbsp; He&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/madd.org\/tennessee\/mitchell-pewitt-jr\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why We&#8217;re Here:  Mitchell Pewitt, Jr.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,11],"tags":[4,6,7,8],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-victim-stories","category-why-were-here","tag-nomorevictimstn","tag-drunk-driving","tag-impaired-driving","tag-tennessee-victims","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - 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