Mom and 4 children killed by drunk driver
Posted January 1st, 2008 by minortopics | via www.foxnews.comLife can be so cruel, so unfair…in a blink of a moment, a mother and her 4 children, ranging from newborn to elementary age, were killed by a drunk driver.
Bethany Griffin, 36, Jordan Griffin, 10, and Verde Griffin, 6 months, all of Parkville, Md., were killed along with Lacie Burkman, 7, and Haley Burkman, 10, both of Redford Township, Mich., near Detroit, according to the Lucas County Coroner’s office.
Both drivers tried to avoid each other, but the crash ripped a side door off the minivan, throwing out some of the victims.
An infant seat wrapped with pink baby blankets landed in the roadway.
“It was among the worst I’ve seen,” assistant fire chief Luis Santiago said.
A man and two other children from the minivan were taken to St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center with life-threatening injuries, Santiago said.