Candy Lightner: Drinking Laws

Candy Lightner There are many laws that protect one’s life and there are many people who influenced these laws. Such as drinking laws. Several drinking laws were enforced to save many lives, but most people do not even think about these laws and how they might have just saved your life, or even a loved ones. If it was not for Candy Lightner, various drinking laws would not have been forced. These laws continue to save lives all around the world. Candy Lightner was born in Pasadena, California on May 30, 1946 (“Candy Lightner”). She was born into a middle-class family with a father who worked for the U.S. air force and a mother who worked for a military branch (“Candy Lightner”). Lightner graduated high school in 1964 and continued her
The car hit her with so much force, that it knocked her out of her shoes and sent her 125 feet away (“Candy Lightner”). Lightner later found out that Cari was hit by a drunk driver who not once stopped after hitting Cari and was most likely to receive little punishment. The driver was Clarence William Busch. He had four previous drunk driving convictions, only spent forty-eight hours in jail for the death of Cari, and had another hit-and-run incident just two days before Cari’s hit (“Candy Lightner Facts”). Busch later received two years in prison for the death of Cari (“Candy Lightner Facts”). Lightner did not spend all of her time grieving over what happened, instead, she got right to work on Mothers Against Drunk Driving or MADD (“Mothers Against
Lightner started MADD only four days after Cari’s death and with little money, she quit her job and used her savings to fund the organization (“Candy Lightner”). Lightner poured all of her energy into MADD, giving speeches and testifying for tougher drunk driving laws all around America and soon the globe (“Candy Lightner Facts”). Although, she did not do this alone. Lightner had a partner named Cindi Lamb, whose daughter was also hit by a drunk driver and was left paralyzed (“Candy