that's verse presents drunk driver
crashes into wedding car and the
wreckage is horrific
weddings are full of love fun and family
people watch the bride and groom
exchange vows they dance at the
reception and they cheer for the happy
couple as they leave for their honeymoon
sadly there are some weddings that start
out perfect and then turn tragic on
January 2nd 2005 Lisa and David were
married on a beach in Long Island the
couple had two flower girls at their
wedding they were Lisa's niece's
seven-year-old Katie and her younger
sister grace the girls walked down the
aisle before the bride wearing beautiful
dresses and smiling proudly at this time
nobody knew how horribly the day would
end after a long day of love and fun the
bride's family got into the limo in the
limo were her mother and father
Christopher and Denise her sister
Jennifer Jennifer's husband Neil and
their two daughters Katie and grace also
climbed into the limo the car was going
to take the tired family home after
their long exciting day
David the groom told CNN news that he
remembers looking at the limo and seeing
Katie waving at him he said that when
someone waves goodbye especially a young
child you never realized that it's going
to be the last time the limo left the
reception venue and got on the highway
on the same Highway 24 year-old Martin
hyejin was driving drunk he was driving
on the wrong side of the highway and he
hit the limo head-on according to the
police report hyejin's blood-alcohol
level was over three times higher than
the legal limit he had consumed at least
fourteen drinks before he got behind the
wheel and drove down the wrong highway
for at least two miles going 70 miles
per hour the carnage he created was
horrific the man driving the limo was 59
year old Stanley Rabinowitz he was
killed instantly when he was crushed by
the limos engine Christopher the bride's
father broke both of his legs when he
was thrown to the floor
one of his legs was so severely broken
he had to have it amputated
Christopher's wife Denise was also
seriously injured little grace the
adorable flower girl was stuck in the
wreckage Neil the father of the flower
girls broke his back he was able to
escape from the car and get help his
wife Jennifer hurt her foot she was
desperately trying to find her daughter
Katie before the crash
Katie was lying on the seat next to her
mother and she was plucked up
Jennifer kept looking for her daughter
until she saw the most horrific sight
any parent could ever see her daughter
Katie had been decapitated by her seat
belt
Michael tange knee was one of the first
responders he was a police officer and
he was the bride's uncle he was at the
wedding just hours before when he walked
toward the limo a man told him to stay
back he told him that it was really bad
went and he opened the back door to the
limo he discovered that it was his own
family when he saw Jennifer coming from
the back of the limo he saw the most
awful sight he had ever seen she was
holding her daughter's head in her hands
the little girl's body was still in the
car she was still in her flower-girl
dress
Jennifer sat on the side of the road for
the next hour while her family was being
taken out of the limo and paramedics
worked on them the whole time she held
Katie's head in her lap finally she had
to let her daughter go she kissed her
cheek and gave the head to tange me that
night tore the family apart
the bride and groom could no longer
enjoy their anniversary because it was
also the anniversary of little Katie's
death Jennifer and Neil decided to tell
their story in hopes that it would never
happen to another family again
people think drunk driving isn't serious
but when something like this happens
it's tragic the man who hit the family
was sentenced to 18 years in prison he
was convicted of two counts of
second-degree murder
sadly no punishment will bring the girl
back or erase the family's memories of
that
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