Category: Victim Stories

January 6, 2019 was the worst day of my life. It was the day I lost my family. And it happened in the most horrific of ways. My sister Rima, my brother-in-law Issam, my two...

I remember my mother in fragments. I know that her name was Terri and that she was 44 when I was born. I know that we lived in a one-bedroom apartment in San Diego, just the...

Two drunk drivers changed my family’s life forever. On April 10, 2016, my three children, 15-year-old Kaylee, 6-year-old Khaiden, 4-year-old Samuel, and I went to a housewarming party for Khaiden’s godbrother. It was a sunny day...

Five seconds. Your life can be forever changed in as little as five seconds. Shattered…and no matter how hard you try, you can’t put the pieces back together in the same way. Little pieces of...

Last month, MADD featured Ohio mechanic and businessman Daniel Toops. Click here to read Toops' story. On Nov. 28, 2013, Toops died in a drunk driving crash. Four other people were in the vehicle...