Statistics don’t change behavior. Faces do. Each film opens with the same two facts: in the United States someone dies in an alcohol-impaired crash every 42 minutes, and every one of those deaths was preventable. Then a parent or a son tells you who those numbers were.
The films run 12 to 16 minutes. They contain frank descriptions of fatal crashes. Please watch with care, and consider sharing them with a young driver in your life.
Told by Peter Navratil. A son remembers his mother, Geri Navratil, and her companion Jim Finegan, killed at a red light on East Avenue in 2002.
Told by Sue Merritt. A mother tells the story of her son Ryan, who drove drunk on a spring-break night in 2001 and never came home.
Told by Henry Sr. & Migdalia Rivera. Parents remember their son Henry Alexander Rivera and his friend Pedro Hernandez, killed by a wrong-way driver on 590 in 2007.
Brighton · Special education teacher, watercolor artist, volunteer · Killed July 31, 2002
Perinton · Geri’s companion · Killed July 31, 2002
Hilton · Sept 9, 1983 – April 20, 2001 · Hilton High School senior
Irondequoit · 18 · East Ridge High School senior · Killed May 27, 2007
20 · Henry’s friend and coworker · Killed May 27, 2007
SUNY Brockport, Class of 2004 · 26 · Killed October 19, 2003
Every view is a conversation someone didn’t have to start alone. Show them to a teenager, a coworker, a friend who says they’re fine to drive.
Rochester-area families who lost someone to impaired driving, working so no other family has to.
In honor of all those we have lost to impaired driving, and the families who carry them forward.
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