Drinking & Driving = Death

Please show this to your teenagers!!!!
This was no accident----A drunk teenager and one car = death.......This HAPPENED on OUR street...Just over a mile from our ranch...It is now known he was traveling over 130 MPH while drinking ................................................

This is just one of the news paper articles


Fatal crash shocks friends

A Stanwood High School senior is dead after driving into a mobile home.

By Melissa Slager and Diana HefleyHerald Writers


STANWOOD - A trail of destruction marks the path.
Muddy tire tracks cut a swath through a pasture to a metal fence post, bent nearly to the ground.
Kevin Nortz / The Herald
Debris remains scattered Tuesday at the site of Monday's fatal crash in Stanwood.The fence did little to slow down a Lexus that plowed through the front part of a disassembled mobile home Monday night, shearing off part of it.
Debris piled up everywhere, and the man who called 911 Monday night said he couldn't even see the car at first beneath the rubble. All he could hear was a muffled yell.
Justin Stump, 17, a senior at Stanwood High School, died at the scene. His passenger and best friend, also 17, was taken to Providence Everett Medical Center.
"It's a miracle he only had minor injuries," Snohomish County Sheriff's Office spokesman Rich Niebusch said of the passenger.
No one else was hurt in the crash in the 26700 block of 64th Avenue NW.
Detectives are investigating whether speed or alcohol played a role.
"This is just a real tragedy," Niebusch said.
Friends of Stump couldn't concentrate on their schoolwork Tuesday and came to the site of the crash instead.
"You've kind of got to see it for yourself," said Caley Woodworth, 18, a senior who had known Stump since grade school.
She and six other friends recalled Stump as a gregarious showoff whose smile was infectious. He would constantly flip his head to get his long hair out of his eyes. Girls found him cute.

"He made everybody happy. You'd be sad, and he'd come up to you and say, 'Waddup?' And you have to laugh," said Sarah Chase, 15, a sophomore.
Senior Trynton Vargas, 18, held back tears. "I still can't believe it," he said.
Stump attended Skagit Valley Community College part-time through Running Start, which allows teens to earn high school and college credit at the same time. He wrestled for Stanwood his first three years of high school.
Counselors were on hand Tuesday in the high school library to help students struggling with his death.
An impromptu memorial was set up at the school late on the night of the crash. Most of the graffiti - "rest in peace," "never forgotten" - spray-painted on the sidewalks was washed away by morning. But a cross and sign with words of remembrance remained propped up against a wall.
Friends said Stump had dropped off other friends after seeing a movie in Marysville and was on his way home when the crash occurred.
The car struck the mobile home so hard that it was pushed into an adjacent recreational vehicle, damaging much of the interior.
Steve, who did not give his last name, said he normally lives in the RV. The property owner is gone, so that night he was staying in the house, whose windows shook from the force of the crash.
He took one look and called 911.
"I was just glad I wasn't sitting on my couch," he said.
Now he's trying to repair busted water lines and keep teenagers off the property to avoid any more injuries among the rubble, he said.
Reporter Melissa