Time to get personal

Drunk Driving and drunk driving accidents don't just effect the people involved they impact the families. First of all families have to pay for all the hospital and legal bills which really can cripple them financially. Also, the emotional damage is so severe it still hurts some of the family members of drunk driving victims 35 years later. One more way drunk driving accidents impacts the families of the victims is there is a feeling of regret and guilt as some family members and friends feel they could have the changed the outcome.
For me there was one time where a close family member was involved in a drunk driving accident. It was five and a half years ago when was a freshman in high school and. He had some of his friends over before a dance and they drank some hard liquor before going to the dance. About two hours later I see two of his close friends carrying him in my house and laying him down on the couch, he was unconscious. After more of his friends arrived we went out to see his car, he had been in an accident and the front right side of his car was destroyed. He woke up two and a half hours later when the cops came, luckily he was not arrested and neither were my parents. He did in get trouble and almost had a lot of opportunities taken away but he still got into his top college. Since then I can't go a week without thinking about it and how lucky I was that he survived.
To drive this point home I want you to read this poem I found: http://www.scribd.com/doc/20023/Poem-Against-Drunk-Driving