Project Roadblock urges drivers to think twice before getting behind the wheel of a car either drunk or buzzed.Ĭopyright 2019 by WJXT News4Jax - All rights reserved. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, drunk driving deaths increase on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. The driver who hit Bradford's family is serving 10 years in prison.īradford and Dyson shared their story with News4Jax as part of Project Roadblock, a nationwide drunk driving prevention campaign that kicked off Thursday and continues through New Year’s Eve. “I get to see other kids get to do stuff after school, and I have to go to therapy.”Īs their recovery continues nearly six years after the crash, Bradford and her son are urging drivers and passengers to think twice before making the decision to drink and drive.Īnd Mothers Against Drunk Driving points out that it's also important for passengers to not get in a car with someone who has been drinking. Her son, Dyson Ferris, who was 4 years old at the time of the crash, was briefly paralyzed on his right side and spent nearly six months in a wheelchair. They’re my souvenirs,” Bradford said.Įve and Dyson shared their story as part of Project Roadblock. “I tell people that I walk with four crutches. And now, I lost the house, I lost the career, I lost the capacity to do the things that I love."īradford suffered a head injury and shattered her pelvis. I taught sixth grade out at Oakleaf, had a career, had a brick house, mortgage - the normal life. “Where I was before the wreck, I had a career that I loved. “I went from normal life to living a life that focuses and revolves around disabilities,” Bradford said. In March 2014, Bradford was driving on Blanding Boulevard with her pregnant sister, nephew and two sons when they were hit by a drunk driver going over 70 mph.Īll five were injured, and Bradford said she didn’t know if she would survive. “They’re wanting to have fun, but sometimes they forget that on the flip side of that having fun are choices and decisions and those choices and decisions affect everybody out driving on the streets.” “I see kids going out to party or to play, they’re just wanting to have a good time,” Bradford said. – Eve Bradford knows that when you head out to party for New Year's Eve - or any other occasion - you're not planning to almost kill someone when you drive home buzzed or drunk.īradford and her family have felt the lingering affects of one driver’s choice for nearly six years. Go the extra mile with banners for mobile and web that allow you to extend your support of Project Roadblock online, reaching wider audiences and further spreading this critical message.JACKSONVILLE, Fla.
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