Lindy, Christopher and Kamryn Simmons.Photo:GoFundMe
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The video begins with text reading, “Watch how a drunk driver changed our lives in an instant,” before showing a montage of happy videos of the children’s mother, Dawn Simmons, with Kamryn, Christopher and Lindy, who were three of Dawn’s nine children.
The video ends with Dawn visiting the grave of her three children.According toTODAY, Dawn visits the cemetery every day and keeps a kit to clean the shared headstone.
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Dawn and Christopher’s girlfriend, who were also in the car at the time of the crash, were hospitalized with serious injuries but survived,The Advocatereported. Dawn sustained a punctured lung, two broken ankles, leg fractures, broken wrists, fractured ribs, damage to her spleen and a lacerated carotid artery, the outlet reported.
“When I came home from the hospital, when I tell you, I was so broken, physically, emotionally, like I didn’t know — I just didn’t know how I was going to do it,” Dawn told the outlet in 2022, explaining that she has relied on her Christian faith for emotional support.
After the crash, Katie launched aGoFundMe postseeking financial help for her grieving family.
“Our lives are shattered,” Katie wrote at the time. “I don’t know how we will ever move on or recover from this.”
According toTODAY, the bedrooms of the children remain exactly as they were on the day of the crash. The outlet reports that Dawn and Katie have launched a nonprofit organization calledSimmons3that teaches people about the dangers of impaired driving.
According to theNational Highway Traffic Safety Administration,13,384 people died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes in the United States in 2021. Every day, about 37 people die, or about one every 39 minutes.
source: people.com
