12-year old Christian Schmidt died in September 2008 when the pickup he and his dad were riding in was hit head-on by another vehicle in South Carolina. Troopers charged the driver of that car with felony DUI.

A young child was killed in a suspected drunk-driving accident in Perris, near Riverside, CA May 10, 2009. 5-year-old Taane Unga was the passenger in a Mazda minivan traveling south on the 215 Freeway when a Kia attempted to change lanes and struck the minivan. Both drivers lost control of their vehicles and the Mazda flipped, throwing the child from the vehicle. He was pronounced dead at the scene. At least one of the other occupants of the Mazda was hospitalized with undisclosed injuries. The driver of the Kia, 52-year-old Scott Peterson, was arrested on suspicion of DUI. He was not injured in the crash.

In South Florida hundreds of people came out to mourn three young children who were killed in a deadly Miami accident in January of this year. The Serrano children, 10-year-old Hector, 7-year-old Esmerelda, and 4-year-old Amber, died from injuries they sustained when an SUV struck their family minivan from the back. Their father, Hector, who was driving the vehicle they were riding in, was stopped at a red light when the Florida car accident happened. He survived the auto accident with a broken arm.

And in perhaps one of the worst drunk driving stories in recent history, a mother died along with four children. Bethany Griffin, 36, Jordan Griffin, 10, and Vadie Griffin, 6 months, all of Parkville, Md., were killed along with Lacie Burkman, 7, and Haley Burkman, 10, both of Redford Township, Mich., near Detroit, according to the Lucas County Coroner’s office. Both drivers tried to avoid each other, but the crash ripped a side door off the minivan, throwing some of the victims out onto the roadway.
  
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