Today's Washington Post features a powerful article about the dangers of drunk driving:
Students at West Potomac High School in Fairfax County have heard, repeatedly, about the dangers of alcohol. After their graduation ceremony Thursday afternoon, the school sponsored an alcohol-free, all-night party. But in the end, young drivers take the keys, and their fates, into their own hands.
And so the defining image of the 2007 graduation season will be a white convertible Volkswagen Cabriolet, upside down, its roof gone, and four young lives gone with it. Two 18-year-old West Potomac graduates and two George Mason University students were killed late Thursday when their car suddenly veered into the path of a tractor-trailer on a ramp from the Capital Beltway. A fifth teenager, a 17-year-old West Potomac student, was hospitalized after being cut out of the wreckage.
The four kids had just received their diplomas, had their entire lives ahead of him and with one foolish lapse of judgment, it was all over. More information about the crash is featured in another Washington Post story, also published today:
"She said, 'Grandpa, I'm going to sleep out tonight at a girlfriend's house.' . . . I said, 'Okay, Renee, have a good time.' " Her grandfather fell asleep in his chair, his habit when Renee was out late. Four hours later, police knocked on his door to tell him she had been killed in a car accident. Lydia M. Petkoff, 18, the friend she was going to spend the night with, had also died in the crash.
1 comment:
this article was horrible. i personally knew the girls from school and played sports with both lydia and renee. i was at the vigil after the accident felt intruded by all of the media. i feel this article was mostly focused on the alcohol found in the car and assuming the driver was drunk when in fact it still has not been proven she was drinking at all. please get the facts straight before you publish an article about people you dont even know making them seem like horrible individuals when they were amazing people.
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