Zero In Wisconsin: Ten Stories, One Vision
Summary
TLDRThe video script recounts the heart-wrenching stories of individuals affected by drunk driving, emphasizing the devastating and lasting impact on families and victims. It details accidents caused by intoxicated drivers, the tragic outcomes, and the survivors' struggles. The narrative serves as a stark warning about the perils of driving under the influence and a call for a cultural shift towards responsible behavior to prevent such tragedies.
Takeaways
- π The script recounts multiple tragic incidents caused by drunk driving, emphasizing the severe consequences on individuals and families.
- π¨βπ©βπ§βπ¦ Many of the victims were innocent, including children and families, highlighting the ripple effect of a single drunk driving incident.
- π» Drinking impairs judgment and reaction time, leading to poor decisions such as getting behind the wheel, which can result in fatal accidents.
- π The immediate aftermath of a drunk driving accident often involves severe injuries or death, with survivors left to grapple with the trauma.
- π₯ Survivors of drunk driving accidents may face long-term physical and emotional challenges, including paralysis and chronic pain.
- π The loss of a loved one to a drunk driving accident leaves a void that families must learn to live with, often struggling with grief and guilt.
- π The script underscores the importance of responsible behavior, urging individuals not to drive under the influence of alcohol.
- π The use of seat belts is crucial in reducing the severity of injuries in car accidents, with several stories illustrating their life-saving potential.
- π« The script serves as a stark warning against the culture of drinking and driving, calling for a change in attitudes and behaviors to prevent further tragedies.
- π The recurring call for 'zero in Wisconsin' signifies a collective goal to eliminate drunk driving incidents, aiming for zero fatalities.
Q & A
What was the cause of the accident involving Sierra and Michelle?
-Sierra and Michelle were coming from a party where they had been drinking. Sierra drove too fast and failed to negotiate a curve, causing their car to hit a tree.
What was the immediate action of the driver who caused the accident with Sierra and Michelle?
-The driver who caused the accident did not call 911, use his cell phone, or check on the girls. He left the scene and later stopped to wash the blood off his car.
What is the significance of the phrase 'zero in Wisconsin' mentioned at the end of the transcript?
-The phrase 'zero in Wisconsin' is a vision for a future where there are zero fatalities from drunk driving in the state of Wisconsin.
How did the accident affect the family of the driver who hit Sierra and Michelle?
-The family of the driver who hit Sierra and Michelle is left with the emotional burden and responsibility of knowing their loved one caused the accident and the deaths of two young people.
What is the common theme among the stories shared in the transcript?
-The common theme is the devastating impact of drunk driving on the lives of the victims, their families, and the drivers involved, emphasizing the importance of responsible behavior to prevent such tragedies.
Why did Sierra not drive home after the party?
-Sierra had been drinking at the party and was aware that she should not drive. She tried to get someone to pick her up but ultimately made the fatal decision to drive anyway.
What is the role of seat belts as depicted in the various stories in the transcript?
-Seat belts are depicted as a crucial safety measure that could have potentially saved lives or reduced the severity of injuries in the accidents described.
What are the long-term effects of the accidents mentioned in the transcript on the survivors and families?
-The long-term effects include physical disabilities, emotional trauma, loss of loved ones, and a lifelong struggle with the consequences of the accidents caused by drunk driving.
What is the message conveyed by the individuals who have been directly impacted by drunk driving in the transcript?
-The message conveyed is a plea for responsible behavior, emphasizing the severe and lasting consequences of drunk driving, and urging people not to get behind the wheel after consuming alcohol.
How does the transcript portray the aftermath of the accidents caused by drunk driving?
-The transcript portrays the aftermath as a series of tragic and life-altering events, including death, injury, and long-term emotional and physical suffering for the victims and their families.
What is the impact of drunk driving on the community as described in the transcript?
-Drunk driving has a profound impact on the community, causing loss of life, grief, and a ripple effect of suffering that extends beyond the immediate victims to their families, friends, and the wider community.
Outlines
π Impact of Drunk Driving
The paragraph recounts the tragic consequences of drunk driving through multiple personal stories. It starts with a mother's account of her daughter's death in a car accident caused by a drunk driver. The narrative continues with a couple's experience of being hit by a drunk driver, resulting in the death of the driver and the couple's friend. The paragraph emphasizes the importance of not drinking and driving, as it can lead to irreversible loss and pain. It also touches on the guilt and regret of a drunk driver who survived a crash that killed others, highlighting the responsibility each individual holds for their actions.
π₯ The Aftermath of a Drunk Driving Accident
This paragraph delves into the physical and emotional aftermath of a drunk driving accident from the perspective of the victims and their families. It includes accounts of individuals who suffered severe injuries, such as a woman with glass embedded in her forehead and a man who became a quadriplegic after being hit by a drunk driver. The stories underscore the long-term effects on the victims' lives, including the inability to perform daily activities and the emotional trauma of losing loved ones. The paragraph also conveys the message that drunk driving not only claims lives but also shatters the futures of those affected.
π The Ripple Effect of Drunk Driving
The paragraph explores the far-reaching consequences of drunk driving on families and communities. It features stories of loss, such as a mother who lost her child due to a drunk driver and a man who killed a single mother in an accident. The narratives reveal the deep emotional scars left on the victims' families and the societal impact of such incidents. The paragraph also includes a drunk driver's confession, expressing remorse for his actions and the irreversible damage caused. It serves as a stark warning about the potential outcomes of drunk driving and the importance of making responsible choices.
π The Tragedy of Teen Drunk Driving
This paragraph focuses on the specific issue of teen drunk driving and its devastating effects. It tells the story of a mother who lost her daughter and the daughter's friend in a car accident caused by their own drunk driving. The narrative also includes the mother's reflections on her daughter's attitude towards life and the potential consequences of reckless behavior. The paragraph concludes with a plea for drivers to reconsider getting behind the wheel after drinking, emphasizing the need for a cultural shift towards zero tolerance for drunk driving.
Mindmap
Keywords
π‘Drunk driving
π‘Trauma
π‘Survivor's guilt
π‘Seat belt
π‘Victim
π‘Impaired judgment
π‘Paralysis
π‘Invincible
π‘Consequences
π‘Responsibility
π‘Support system
Highlights
Sierra and Michelle were involved in a fatal car accident after drinking and driving.
The driver of the car that hit Sierra and Michelle did not stop to help or call for assistance.
The impact of a drunk driving accident can last forever, affecting families and individuals deeply.
The importance of wearing a seatbelt is emphasized through tragic stories of those who didn't.
A mother lost her life due to a drunk driver, leaving behind two young children.
The guilt and regret of a drunk driver who caused a fatal accident.
The physical and emotional aftermath of a drunk driving accident on the driver and their family.
A plea for drivers to consider the potential consequences of their actions behind the wheel.
The tragic loss of a child due to a drunk driver, emphasizing the ripple effect on the family.
The story of a young man who died on his birthday due to a drunk driver, highlighting the preventable nature of such accidents.
The long-term physical disabilities suffered by a victim of a drunk driving accident.
The emotional and psychological impact of losing a loved one to a drunk driver.
A personal account of the devastation caused by a drunk driving accident that killed a young mother.
The call for societal change to prevent drunk driving and promote safety on the roads.
The personal loss and the broader community impact of a drunk driving accident that killed a promising young student.
The devastating realization of the irreversible consequences of drunk driving on the driver and the victim's family.
A mother's plea to drivers to reconsider getting behind the wheel after drinking, sharing her family's tragedy.
The repeated chant 'zero in Wisconsin' as a call to action for zero tolerance on drunk driving.
Transcripts
my daughter Sierra and her friend
Michelle killed marar acent they were
coming from a party they both had been
drinking and um she drove way too
fast my girlfriend and I were coming
from Madison and we were hit by a drunk
driver she died and so did the guy that
hit us he died of massive head trauma
and had even wearen toy felt at a time
probability that he's survive would have
been
great he left her there uh he didn't
call 911 he didn't use his cell phone he
didn't go to see what was if she was
okay or not he left and he stopped on
his way home and watched the blood off
his
car I heard the voice
screaming and I kind of covered my head
and I could hear um the window
shattering The Voice screaming
and then all of a sudden everything was
quiet you know you you don't want
somebody getting
killed and and ruining your whole life
because somebody had to have a drink or
two before they went
home when you as an individual or you
put somebody else or a family in this
position or you kill
them it's
forever as my only sister was killed in
an automobile accident in the winter
time due to the driver driving too fast
for
conditions a one-year-old cannot take
the shock of going from highway speed to
nothing like that because that's what
kills me stop the
heart I found out at at the crash scene
that a woman had died um she was a
single mom and had two young children
and she died instantly because of me a
drunk
driver me and a couple friends were out
drinking and partying and um we decided
to get in the car and drive that night
and um you know I buckled my seat belt
right away cuz it's just something I've
always done my parents have taught me to
do and um we were going around a corner
and we were probably going about 70 M an
hour you know I knew it was coming they
knew it was coming to a couple cuss
wordss came out and um as we take the
corner we started to roll and I'm
sitting upright in the
car and um you know I started scre
screaming you know what happened where
are you guys I'm screaming Matt dery
Kyle where are you guys and kind of look
around nobody's in the car I'm all alone
so I unbuckle my seat belt cars smashing
all around me I can't get any doors open
but um I crawled out a window and I seen
um my boyfriend Matt lying there right
away and he was lying on his back like
he was sleeping so I actually knelt
beside his head and I lifted it up and
there was a hole the size of probably a
baseball lots of blood you know he's
dead but you don't want to believe it
kind of thing I was the only one wearing
a seat belt and um you know the boys
they were just they were having a good
time they were all laughing and I even
said you know we're going kind of fast
you guys put your seat belt on they just
just didn't think it could happen to
them you know with the alcohol impairing
their judgment they just didn't think I
guess my 27 year old son was a teacher
uh was returning uh from a reception
actually on his birthday and was
involved in a car accident and died uh
and unfortunately wasn't wearing a seat
belt at the time yeah according to the
uh Physicians it was U the cause of
death was head trauma so in all
likelihood he would have survived had he
been wearing a seat belt you know for a
long time I didn't wear a seat belt and
it's unfortunate that tragedy has to
impact on you before you see the import
of this very very simple task it takes
two seconds to buckle up um you're
putting your life in jeopardy and you're
putting children's lives in jeopardies
when you don't buckle up take that two
seconds just to buckle
up my friend was killed by the drunk
driver and she was a sergeant here in
Wasa an army recruiter uh the drunk
driver was passing a vehicle and we were
going 65 M an hour and he was too due to
the accident you know getting hit by a
drunk driver and the fact that I was not
wearing a seat belt and I was not a seat
belt wearer before that accident I ended
up having injuries that I had to deal
with u ending up in the hospital for two
months having glass in my forehead
because of hitting a windchill and I'm
still getting working on getting that
glass
out
my ex-wife and I were
driving um back from taking a load of U
boxes or whatever to a new home we were
moving into and um we had to make a stop
at a truck stop cuz one of my daughters
had to go to the bathroom and we were in
separate
cars at the same time a young uh man man
was celebrating his 18th birthday with a
bunch of his friends and um he was
coming back from the celebration
traveling at high rate Speed without his
headlights
on and just as I was getting ready to
cross the highway this young kid hit me
broadside and his car exploded went up
in the air um bounced off a park car in
a truck St parking lot and threw him out
of the car and and then eventually his
car landed on top of him they literally
had to scrape him off the ground that's
and he died in the uh accident my car
went up into the air flipped three times
in the air without even touching the
ground when I finally landed my car um
slid like about 300 ft down the um
Highway the condition that I've been
left in um is I'm a c45 quad I'm
paralyzed from about the middle of my my
chest down uh I feel nothing from that
down um the splints on my wrist helps to
stabilize my wrist to keep them straight
so I can drive my wheelchair and do
other things I have no use of My Fingers
um there's no dexterity in my fingers at
all if I hadn't been hit by this
speeding young um drunk driver I would
have been able to do a lot of same
things everybody else does every day um
or when they go on vacations or so on
and so forth um I wouldn't be limited to
just this life in the wheelchair well
the things I used to love to do prior to
my accident I played guitar for about 18
years and um I used to love swimming I
used to love play
football uh as odd as it sounds I used
to love the mole lawn it was especially
frustrating when uh my
grandson came up to me one day when he
wanted to give me a kiss goodbye and he
put his arms up to me and he said uh you
know Papa to give me a kiss and I
couldn't reach down and pick him up for
people that say that it's okay to drink
and drive I tell them to more or less
take a a roll or a step in my shoes for
6 months and they'd find that um the
urge to drink and drive would go away
really
fast my daughter Amy Stam Kubler was hit
by a drunk driver while she was jogging
along the road and she was struck so
hard that she went 500 ft into a deep
ditch Amy was married and her husband
had come home that night and found her
that found her not home so he had he
looked around and he saw that she had
some of her um jogging clothes was gone
so she thought he thought maybe she was
still out running but it was 10:30 at
night by that time and so he called my
son who lived about 3 four miles away
and he came over really quickly saw a
shoe in the on the highway near where
their house is and they call 911 and my
son went down into the ditch and where
the shoe was and found her there and
neither one had ever seen anybody die
before they loved her so much if this
hadn't happened to our family to my
daughter I think we'd be happy we're not
happy we're never really totally happy I
think more than anything we would have
her here and we'd be able to laugh and
hug her and have her children be raised
while we're around it's like the worst
thing a parent could ever imagine losing
a child one thing I would say to anyone
who gets in the car after they've been
drinking or using anything that would
impair them is don't take anybody's life
in in your hands you could hurt an
innocent child an innocent person you
people go off the road all the time and
they think oh I didn't hit anybody but
that man that hit my daughter went off
the side of the road and he hit
somebody my husband Walter are
14-month-old old son Matthew and I went
up to we're going up to Three Lakes um
it was on a Saturday evening and we were
going up to visit my husband's parents
we were on Highway 45 about 7 miles
north of New London when my husband
noticed a pickup truck coming down going
south on 45 and he also noticed that
this pickup truck was crossing over the
center line into our lane well my
husband tried to steer the car in out of
the way he couldn't get it far far
enough out of the way though and we were
hit head on more toward my front part of
the car my husband seconds after the
crash I'm sure could tell that both
Matthew and I were unconscious they came
and got us and took us to the New London
Hospital where Matthew was pronounced
Dead on
Arrival what happens when you drive
drunk uh how it affects Families how it
that it's not just a a a headline in the
paper a blurb on the news that it's real
that it affects people their whole life
and that it's wrong and I don't know how
they live with it because I know how
we've adjusted to lose him but how they
adjust to the fact that their whole life
they've got to know and remember that
they actually killed someone I don't
know how they can deal with
that I was on my way up North to go
fishing at our cabin and um
in on the way up North I drank in the
car I had driven drank and drove before
just north of wasaki I drifted across
the center line of the road and I hit
another car headon I found out at at the
crash scene that a woman had died um she
was a single mom I didn't give her a
chance you read the autopsy report the
injuries were massive internal injuries
she died instantly I didn't give her a
chance
um I heard those words go into my brain
I understood them I registered I knew
what that meant but I don't know what
the words are to explain the feeling you
have when you're responsible for killing
someone through a drunk driving crash
many people take drinking and driving
for granted sometimes it seems to be a
culture in Wisconsin and and it's
something that just people H do without
another thought I had drink and drove
many times this was the first time
anything has ever happened to me I've
never had a drunk driving although I
should have had many I've never been
involved in a crash and my first Crash
from a drunk driving incident cost the
life of another human being and um I had
to deal with that it has not been an
easy road to deal with it's been a
tremendously Hard Road to deal with that
but it doesn't compare anything to what
that woman's family has had to go
through they lost a mom they lost a
sister um they they lost a daughter and
they've got to live with that that for
the rest of their life there's there's
nothing I can do to bring her back you
think that it's not going to happen to
you I'm here today to tell you that it
can happen to you it happened to me I
didn't think it was going to be me but
it is so the dangers of drinking and
driving are tremendous the the the
ramifications are huge and we don't
think about that and I think the reason
we don't think about it is because we're
selfish we're doing what we want to do
and we don't think it's going to hurt
anybody else
but it does it hurts far more people
than we can begin to imagine And if
every individual will just take a little
step forward and make a change and not
get behind the wheel we can start to
take the culture Wisconsin and turn it
we can start to get to the zero in
Wisconsin we can make this work if we
all try
together the relationship between my
sister and I was more than just sisters
considering my sister was 12 years
younger than me it was almost like she
was not just a sister but almost a child
to me and we were very close uh she had
many things going for her she was going
to graduate from high school that year
um she was killed 3 months before
graduation I would say anyone who thinks
that they are an experienced enough
driver or I've been driving for I don't
care how many number of years and thanks
that they can drive as fast as they want
and winter road conditions that are
dangerous they absolutely wrong uh even
going 10 under the speed limit most of
the time is not slow enough you can't
control a vehicle when you hit ice you
can't control a vehicle that's coming
towards you and hope that they're going
to
stop I was affected by my husband being
hit by a drunk driver we were coming
home from the Madison mards Baseball
Team game it should not have happened my
husband was crossing the street in a
crosswalk a lighted crosswalk when this
lady hit
him
um I'm you know it's it's just a very
very terrible thing that happened to our
life in one minute you have this
wonderful life that you have a husband
that's that's always there and you're
always doing something with and and the
next minute you don't have anything at
all your your life is just just
gone my daughter SI and her friend
Michelle were at a party Sierra had been
trying to get somebody had been calling
friends trying to get somebody to come
and pick her up cuz she knew she had
been drinking she had shouldn't be
driving uh subsequently when they fled
the party they were operating way too
fast failed to negotiate a curve and
their car went uh sideways into a tree
at a high rate of speed and and it they
both died instantly from the uh from the
impact these teens think they're
Invincible my daughter told me three
weeks before she died if I can't have
fun I don't want to live and I said to
you know Sierra those consequences
sometimes are deadly and then she proved
it since Sierra's died our whole life
has changed our daughter she didn't
graduate from high school she'll never
get married she'll never go to college
she'll never have children every day
every minute of each day I live with my
daughter's my daughter's death the the
choice that she made that night affected
so many people not only did she take
herself she took her best friend with
her Rose is right there isn't there
isn't a day goes by um you look at
everything much differently all we can
do is do whatever we can so somebody
else doesn't go through the same
experience that we
have if someone thinks that they're okay
to drive after they've been drinking
alcohol I would like to take them by the
hand and walk one black up from my house
and go visit my daughter's grave and her
friend Michelle's just right down the
way I go see my daughter every morning
and every night before I go to bed
that's how I see my daughter so if you
think you're okay to drink and then
drive you you have a you have a roote
Awakening very roote Awakening I love
this every single day that's how I get
to see my
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