The girl who hit Stephen with her car

I have pictures of the girl who hit Stephen with her car. For now, until she's convicted, I have to refer to her as the ALLEGED drunk driver, since we're still waiting on her tox results to come in. It has been 5 weeks since the accident. We have a prosecutor assigned to the case and now we're just waiting on a preliminary hearing to be scheduled. We're told it could be as long as 6 months from now, and even that's considered "quick." So it could be longer. The waiting is the hardest part. I can't wait to go to court and see how this all plays out. I will be there every time. I will let everyone know the court dates if you all want to go.

I'm not going to write the girl's name, but you can at least see what she looks like. I'm not going to say anything about her. I don't want to hurt the case at all. I may even be pushing it a little by even posting this blog. But if any of you are like me, you need a face to put with the action. I can say that she is only 20 years old...barely 20. She turned 20 just about 2 weeks before the accident.

Roadside Memorial

Stephen's friends in North and South Carolina held a roadside memorial today on the 1-month anniversary of his death. It was really nice. They did a balloon send-off, where they wrote messages on cards tied to balloons and let them go. They put a cross at the side of the road where the accident happened. The cross is hollow, so the boys put some of Stephen's ashes inside. They planted flowers around his cross.











And some videos from today:

The balloon lift-off



If you watch this video, about 17 seconds into it, you get to see from the driver's point of view, what she would have seen, sitting exactly where her car was sitting about to come out and turn left. Stephen was coming from her left around that curve in the distance.