Please sign this petition to stop distracted drivers  

It does not matter where you live in the USA, please sign it.

http://www.allieslaw.com/

Being the mother of a dead son due to a drunk driver, it makes me angry to see people being killed, not just from drunk drivers, but drivers who are doing other things while they are driving.

JUST DRIVE!! No make up application, no eating meals, no phone calls or texting, or anything else.

Alessandra "Allie" Augello, August 15, 1991 - November 10, 2008, Victim of a distracted driver.

The 17 year-old teenager had lost her life, less than a mile from leaving her school, Bishop McLaughlin Catholic High School. She was driving 45 mph on a 50 mph street; she was not drinking or driving reckless. It happened because the other driver, a 19 year-old who was also killed, was allegedly on her cell phone.

So, a girl who could not wait to make or receive a phone call is dead and she killed someone else. Is it that important to talk to someone while driving and if it is, why not wait to call back or pull over to answer!!

My cousin has a hands-free phone in his car that is voice-activated. He said he did that because he refused (as I do) to answer a phone while driving.

I know that cops are busy but I see them pass by people on their phones. Pull them all over!! Also, fines are too low. Make it high, really high, like $1,000 and they take your license at that moment and keep it for 2 weeks. I bet you that will be a HUGE deterrent!

Wake up people and stop doing this stuff!! I am so angry right now. This girl was the daughter of good friends of mine who, like me, lost their child to a speeding driver, just before his 4th birthday.

Please send prayers for her family, too.