My friend died from drinking and driving...

I am so sorry for your loss. :(

Tonya, that is so awful, a nightmare come true. I think we were discussing drunk driving in another thread, favorite drinks I think.

I hope everybody on PT reads this thread, it sure puts another scare into me, something I have always worried about with my kids. I worry so much about them being killed in car accidents I cannot go to bed of a night until they are back in the house. Of course two are living in their own homes now, but anytime I hear a siren and I know they are away from home, I worry.

So many of our young people are killed in drunk driving accidents, like somebody said on here out partying after proms, and nights like tonight. How I wish they knew how dangerous it is to even be on the highway with these drunk drivers.

I am so sorry to hear of your friend dying so tragically. Poor little child to have to be without his mother all because of drinking. I just hope everything turns out good for you and the little boy.

Willie

Tonya, I'm sorry for ur loss, & I hope all goes well with her son.

Personally I have no pity on drunk drivers, but the ones they leave behind.

A few years back a pickup truck filled with drunk HS teens were speeding on a HWY (I think it was a HWY), turned off the road & flipped the truck killing everyone but the driver (I think it was 5-7 kids that died). It was put in all kind of diff town news papers, & all they could say was PITY the kids, PITY the driver, boo hoo hoo, the POOR kids & blah blah blah...

I have NO feelings towards drunk drivers at all. One killed my great grandmother, she suffered for 6 years until she finally died from the internal damage & emotional damage. She was stuck in a wheelchair & back in those days they didn't have special transportation for her, so she stayed at home all day long & she use to be very active & out going. One of her legs had to have the bone shortened casue of the damage so thats 1 thing that stopped her from getting around. From that day on she grew iller & iller until she died. I was only 5 & I had spent every summer up north with her, my grandma & my great aunt & great uncle. after she passed I hardly ever went up there.

Drunk drivers deserve what they get & esp if they hurt someone else. :mad: :mad: :mad:

Thanks everyone. It just makes me so mad that Jenny chose to drink and drive when she had a little boy to take care of. I talked to Mike about it. He says that I should give the father a chance. Perhaps this will be a eye opener for the father and he'll straighten up. Mike says that he has no problem raising the child like his own, but that we should give things time and see how everything turns out.

Also, I have to vent. WTF were my friends doing letting her drive?! She was driving the birthday girl's vehicle. They gave me the attitude "Well, she insisted." I don't care. I would rather get physical and knock the crap out of my friend...have her hate me a bit then hand her the carkeys. This is exactly why I don't hang out with that crowd anymore.

Jenny and her baby:

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From http://www.legacy.com/ModestoBee/Leg...rsonId=1726991

JENNIFER SINCLAIR SEPT 2, 1980 - DEC 21, 2003

Jennifer Sinclair, 23 of Modesto passed away early Sunday Morning, December 21 in a single car accident.

She is survived by her 18 month old son Joshua James Walker, her mother Cindy Borba, her father Donald Ray Sinclair, and her sisters Sunshine LeBorde and Christina Martinez.

Memorial service will be held Saturday December 27 at 1:00 pm in Riverbank at Christ The King Church 6443 Estelle. Following service, reception will be for Jenny's friends and family at 2237 Southport Ln., Modesto.

Tonya, Jennifer was so beautiful. What an awful waste. That is so sad to see that precious little baby, now without his mother.

I am so worried tonight. My daughter Lindsey is having to work tonight at Mcdonalds and she is a closer, so she is going to be on the highways tonight, scares me to death. If something happend to my baby.....I just don't think I would or could survive. I am one of those worriers that imagine horrible things happening and then I sit and wait and worry. I just wish she didn't have to work tonight, this is the first New Years I have been without my little girl.

Sorry I am rambling, like I said I hope EVERYBODY reads this thread tonight! Reality sucks sometimes, and young people need to do reality checks every once in a while.

Willie

I know what you mean, Willie. I worry too! She'll be fine. Just have to be extra careful tonight.

Thanks Tonya, for helping me worry! I am just a natural born worrier when it comes to my kids. Did you ever tell you child, 'No don't stand to close to the edge or you'll fall' and sure enough they fall! Power of suggestion? I don't know..

Thank Tonya

Willie

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Tonya, I'm so sorry to hear about Jenny.

I hope things work out for the best with her son and his upbringing. Maybe his dad will straighten up and take his responsibility seriously. If not, I'm sure Joshua will need people like you and Mike around to look after him.