“Her name is Emily. She was 16 years old, and lots of
wonderful things were going to happen in her life,” laments
Charrise Hubbard, Emily’s mother. Emily died in a single vehicle
crash less than a year after getting her license.
It was still daylight as Emily was driving herself to a
birthday party at the pool where she was a lifeguard. Just
as she was rounding a curve in the road, she drifted over
the shoulder, overcorrected, struck a culvert, and was
ejected through the passenger window of her truck.
“I would have sworn Emily was too smart not to have her
safety belt on at all times. She was so bright and practical,”
Charrise says. After all, Emily was president of her class.
She belonged to the National Honor Society. She even was
on her school’s newspaper staff and power-lifting team.
“Sometimes,we just assume our kids are doing the things
we’ve worked so hard to teach them.”
Charrise adds that “the thought of Emily’s last few seconds
on this earth often haunts me.Was she afraid? Did she feel
pain? Did she think of all of us who love her so much? The
convenience of having Emily drive and the fun she had
driving were short-lived. If we had known the statistics,
we would have made her go through a step-by-step process
to earn her driving privileges. Anything would be worth
having Emily back with us.”
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