Last summer, 9-year-old Xitclalli “Chilli” Vasquez was paralyzed from the chest down after a drunk driver collided head-on with the car she was riding in. At his sentencing last week, Vasquez read a letter she wrote to the driver. Before she was through reading, everyone in the Fort Worth courtroom, including the driver himself, was in tears.

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In South Carolina, Loretta Robinson is grieving the death of her son, Justin Walker. Walker’s car was hit by a drunken driver, Anna Gonzalez, who pleaded guilty in court last week. Gonzalez’s guilty plea may have brought a sense of closure for Robinson, if she wasn’t constantly reminded of her son’s tragic death by the bills she’s had to pay as a result.

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