Katie Snyder Evans was heading home in 2017, after visiting her premature twin girls in the hospital, when a car going 95 miles an hour with a drunk driver at the wheel flew over a median into her lane, killing her.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. â The photo says it all. It shows a beaming Katie Snyder Evans, weeks after giving birth nearly four years ago, finally able to hold her premature twin daughters together for the first time.
It was also the last time.
âOn her way home from the hospital, one night after visiting the twins, she was hit and killed by a drunk driver, â said Ken Snyder, Katieâs father.