Diane Berardi couldnât believe her ears. Didnât want to, actually. Somehow it had happened again. Somehow the scourge of drunken driving had hit her family once more.
In 1987, she was struck by an impaired motorist, leaving her with a broken back, and spent a full decade in physical therapy.
In 1991, her mother died from injuries suffered after a drunken driver struck the vehicle in which she was riding.
And on the night of Oct. 31, 2019, Diane took a call from her son-in-law, Ed Flinton.
This time it was her daughter, Jessica Flinton.
Jessica had been driving back from the beach when she stopped for gas. As she got back on the road, she was hit broadside by a drunken driver going 115 mph.