Losing Control?

Ultimately, the offender who caused the deaths served only 11 months of the two concurrent five-and-a-half-year prison terms to which he was sentenced.

And this wasn’t the first time this family had suffered a loss at the hands of a drunken driver. In the 1960s, Becky’s cousin John, 18, was killed as a result of riding with a friend who was driving drunk; and, before Becky was born, her uncle Robert, 20, was struck by an impaired driver while driving an ambulance.