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The Boy Who Burned-Personal Narrative

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The first boy that died, because of a drunk driver, was the fiancé of girl who was in the car when the drunk driver hit them head on. The drunk driver was not killed, only Chris, the boy who was driving with his fiancé. The man lost his wife, of 21 years, his 15 year old son, and his 7 year old daughter. They were driving home, leaving a cast party the day before christmas eve. When they went through the green light someone ran a red light and hit them. There were six of them in the car. His wife threw herself onto her daughter to save her. The grandmother and grandfather lost their 18 year old grandson. Their grandson, Christopher and his friend were stopped at a stop sign. Someone hit them from behind at about 75 miles per hour. The force …show more content…

Christopher was stuck in the car and burned to death. The drunk just went home. They were able to say goodbye to their grandson at the mortuary. He was under a blanket and they were aloud to touch him, but they didn’t dare lift the blanket to see how burned he was. Jaynie and Art were the grandparent of Matthew who was 4 months old.They were at West high school at the play that their daughter was in. When they got home they got a phone call from one of their daughters who was in an accident. Two of the children were life flighted to a hospital and the mother and father were taken to a different hospital. The 2 and a half year old's legs were broken off of his hip and they were behind his head. The 4 month old was not breathing right. The mother had to pull the life support off of the 4 month old. Robert was 17 years old. When the father got the phone call at first he couldn’t speak, and after a minute he just yelled out to the daughter and mother that Robert was dead. The father says that there are so many things that are affected in your life when something like that happens. The daughter says that when you see someone who is drinking or you are with someone who is

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