Sign honoring slain teens urges drivers to stay sober

A tragedy robbed two boys of the chance to attend their own high school graduation.Now the community is trying to prevent similar tragedies by urging drivers to be careful.Three days before graduation, three boys were sitting in their stalled car on a shoulder on Interstate 5 when a drunk driver plowed into them. Teens Derek King and Nicholas Hodgins were killed in the crash. A third teen, Anthony Beaver, survived.”Two young men lost their lives. And they had their whole lives ahead of them,” said Hodgin’s mother, Mary Bobbitt.Now a sign on the side of the road makes a plea to every driver who passes by. And a victim’s mother hopes drivers take heed.”I think the hard part when I look at the sign is that he’s not here, and this is all that’s really left,” Bobbitt said.Police said they found a half-empty bottle of vodka in the car of convicted driver Alexander Peder, whose blood-alcohol content was twice the legal limit at the time of the crash.”That’s why  we offer this prayer in View full post on “drunk” News