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I am often very candid about my drinking wine…so I owe this to all of you,
to share this story my daughter just sent me.
Very recently she was careless while driving and went above the speed limit. An officer caught her and gave her a ticket.
….Well one of the best things that are offered to someone who has received a ticket, is to attend a Safety Driving Class..
You do have to pay for it and I believe you have to attend a few days for about 4 hours each…
Obviously…no one looks forward to this but my daughter saw some light in it…So please read..
We often take for granted what is given to us…So I encourage you to take advantage of what comes across your path today…it may help you or someone else
Please take time to read this: From My Daughter
Tonight, I had to attend a mandatory defensive driving course in Lafayette, La
…and of course went in thinking negative and couldn’t wait for it to be over.
Over the course of the four hours, I learned SO much, and wanted to share this extremley touching story with you all.
The instructor for the course is also a firefighter for Lafayette Parish. He told us this tragic story:
…One night, around 2am, he got called out to the scene of a horrible two-vehicle accident.
He arrived before the paramedics and began to asses the damages to the two passengers in one of the vehicles.
He first went to the driver, a man, who begged him to please not worry about himself, but to attend to his wife.
My instructor told him to just hang on and that he would tend to her in a few minutes when the husband then informed him that his wife was pregnant.
The reason the married couple were on the road at 2am, was that she was in labor.
My instructor quickly attempted to retreive her from the vehicle but the vehicle was so badly crushed he was unable to do so.
My instructor’s eyes swelled with tears as he continued with his story.
While waiting for the machinery (which was across town) to cut the pregnant woman out, my instructor delivered a baby girl.
A baby girl, who was so badly traumatized from the accident.
The baby girl….died in his arms.
Not long after this, the innocent woman bled to death.
All of this was witnessed by the husband.
All of this… because a drunk driver drove across FIVE lanes at 2am and hit them head-on.
….Let’s face it, in Louisiana, drinking is overly-accepted.
Not long ago did Louisiana FINALLY lower the Legal Blood Alcohol Count, years after other states already had.
Louisiana is the THIRD state in the US for highest annual deaths due to drunk driving.
When I was fourteen, a kid named Chad I went to elementary school with died in a car accident, as a passenger, with an obliterated friend driving.
I know so many people who are or have been affected by drunk driving.
Please, if you’re going to drink, DON’t DRIVE. IT ISN’t FAIR TO THE REST OF US.
Lets bump Louisiana off of the top three. We can do this together.
Drive safe everyone.
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