""While we cannot erase the pain, we stand together in our grief," said MADD Canada Chief Operating Officer Dawn Regan at Saturday's ceremony."
""It's heartbreaking to see it," Brown said. "It makes it feel so real and the compounding of all the names that are there with him that shouldn't be there, it breaks my heart.""
""I screamed in a way that I believe an animal might sound like it was the most horrible day of my life," Brown said. "I'm still reliving that day over and over again, I probably always will.""
""Every time I'm in the presence of those that have been victimized by impaired driving, it absolutely breaks my heart to see the devastation on families and individuals for something that is solely preventable if everybody in our province takes responsibility.""
Friends and family of impaired-driving victims gathered at Chinguacousy Park in Brampton for a MADD memorial ceremony where six new names were engraved on a monument. The monument, built in 2023, now lists 164 Ontarians who died in alcohol-related crashes. One newly added name was 22-year-old Cole Hodge, killed in a 2023 drunk-driving crash two days after finishing college; his mother Aletha Brown attended and described ongoing grief. Ontario Provincial Police reported 8,272 impaired-driving charges as of Sept. 3 this year, and OPP leadership emphasized daily arrests and the preventable devastation caused by impaired driving.
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