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...Candy Lightner...
...Candy Lightner had a horrible reason for wanting to achieve that goal. On May 3, 1980, her 13-year-old daughter Cari was walking to a church carnival in Fair Oaks, Calif., when a car swerved out of control and killed her. Police arrested a 46-year-old cannery worker named Clarence Busch and found that he had a long record of arrests for intoxication. Less than a week earlier, he had been bailed out on a hit-and-run drunk-driving charge. A policeman told Lightner that Busch was unlikely to spend any time behind bars for killing...
...Lightner, then 33, a divorced real estate agent with two other children, heard that judgment as she was on her way to a dinner with friends on the eve of her daughter's funeral. She was still furious when she joined them in a cocktail lounge as they waited for a table. It was there, of all places, that she decided to do something. "I remember sitting in the bar with all these people and saying out loud, 'I'm going to start an organization.' Just like that. There was this big moment of silence, and then my girlfriend pipes...
...they constitute only 20% of licensed drivers and account for less than 20% of total vehicle miles driven. Teen-agers from 16 to 19 make up just 7% of licensed drivers but are involved in nearly 15% of the fatal crashes in which alcohol is a factor. Says Candy Lightner, president of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD),* of the pro-21 proposals: "There is nothing more important today than reducing the No. 1 killer and crippler of young Americans...
...Founded by Lightner in May 1980, the same month her 13-year-old daughter was killed by a drunken driver...