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"I was able to hold him as he came into the world and I hold him as he left the world", says his mother Kathleen.
Kathleen Busby said she and her husband battled infertility for years and once they found out they were pregnant, they were overjoyed. Only to lose their little boy to a drunk driver just before his fifth birthday during a tragic crash in Visalia. "I flipped down the rear view mirror and he said I love you mommy and I said I love you Ian and the light turned, I drove through the intersection and we were broadsided at approximately 65 miles an hour", says Busby.
The woman driving the other vehicle had a blood alcohol level of .33 over four times the legal limit. It happened on a labor day weekend. "Ian’s crash is Karen Martin verses the state of California and we are the first prosecution in California history for 2nd degree murder on drunk driving", says Busby.
Lt. Joe Gomez with the Fresno police department says that over the past few years dui arrests have continued to increase, especially during the holidays.
"Right now we’re at 1493 arrests for dui in 2015 since January and a year ago, at the same time, we’re 154 above that", says Lt. Gomez.
Ten additional Fresno police officers will be out specifically looking for those driving impaired.
Lt. Gomez says, "number one, you can hurt someone and you can never take that back, you can make that money up but who wants to do that, you could loose your license, you’ve got to go to classes all the time, it is not worth it at all".
"Please, please, make arrangements, stay safe, because the life you save could be yours or it could be somebody you love", says Busby.
The cost of a cab or Uber ride across town is nothing compared to getting a dui and potentially having to pay more than $ 10 thousand dollars in court costs.
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