A teenage boy shot by the man next door frantically turned to June Nalls for help Saturday night. And in her final moments, the longtime pediatric nurse did what came naturally: She rushed her son and his bleeding friend to her pickup and headed for the hospital a few miles away.Minutes later, Ms. Nalls was dead. Police say a man who had been drinking drove his vehicle into her lane along State Highway 243, about a half-mile east of the Kaufman city limits, and hit the pickup head-on.
"I didn't even get to say 'I love you' or nothing," Mark Nalls said Sunday night, recalling the last time he saw his wife of 20 years...
It is only one story, this tragedy reported by the Dallas Morning News, but I cite it because similarly horrific stories are being told throughout the newspapers of America today. Why? Because the courts, the cops and the American people refuse to get serious about stopping drunk driving. Every day in our country 45-50 people die in alcohol-related traffic crashes. That's an average of one every 30 minutes, over 17,000 a year. These deaths constitute 41% of total traffic fatalities.
And every event just as terrible, just as senseless, and just as preventable as the one in which June Nalls' life was taken.
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