The Story of How a Drunk Driver Destroyed Lives

Imagine you and a couple of your friends are on your way home from a birthday party. It is early in the morning and everybody is laid back and tired. All of a sudden, an SUV crashes into the car you're in and life changes forever. In the driver seat you see that one of your friends is dead, so is another in the back and others are badly injured. Paramedics rush to rescue you from the vehicle, but the doors are jammed and so are you. Fire starts to spark, creeping closer to your eyes, nose, ears and hair. Imagine fire making its way into your skin. Rescuers watch the fire attack, declaring you dead. Yet there is hope at the end of the tunnel, you're saved. The door is broken down, the fire is extinguished and the first think you ask, the paramedic holding you, is "Am I going to die?" I would like to say that this is a scene from a movie I watched or the work of my imagination. But as life would have it, this story is as real as drunk driving fatalities go. A story that proves that not all people who are in involved in alcohol related accidents die. On the whole, however, they do lose their lives.