This will be a different story if we don't drunk driving

The story is true and heart-wrenching.Jacqui was a student from Venezuela who had come to the U.S. to study English.On September 19, 1999, 20-year-old Jacqui was in a car with four other friends on the outskirts of Austin, Texas when they were hit by an 18-year-old high school boy on his way home from drinking with some friends.The car in which Jacqui was riding caught fire.Two of her friends died.She survived, but with burns over more than 60 percent of her body.Nobody thought she would survive.She lost her hair, her nose, her ears, he left eyelid and much of her vision. Her fingers were amputated.She's become a spokesperson against drunk driving.
Her website is at: http://www.helpjacqui.com/
Her story and picture being caught before and after car accident can be view through http://burnsupport.org.nz/pages/stories/jaqsab.htm




Personal opinion
My heart was broken when I have seen this news on the web. It is so true that not everyone die in the car accident, but they would experience the suffer from the accident for the rest of their life. As the picture showed, Jacqueline was so young and her amazing journey in life was just going to start, but everything changed after the horrifying car accident. She could not live as we did (or as a normal people did), enjoying school life, having party, dating with someone special, working and even have a marriage.
It can be said that her life was totally destroyed by that teenager who was drunk when driving. Even though that teenager said that he could not forgive himself, but could the situation changed or the car accident would not happen by just saying sorry and feel guilty? The answer is no, things will only change if that teenager realize the impact of drunk driving before he did that.
It could be understood that teenagers like to do things following their heart without thinking or taking any responsibility on their act (so called human right and freedom in their mind). But never forget that everything we do is actually affecting the people around us. So we as a teenager should realize our responsibility instead of regretting of our act in the future and carrying the sin and fault for the whole life. Bear in mind that life is precious and harm that we had made could not be recover by just a sorry. That is not every sorry can be reply by a never mind or it is alright.