Canon City walks to remember one year after drunk driving fatality

Dozens came out to Veterans Park in Canon City Saturday morning for a Drunk/Drugged Driving Awareness Walk. A mile long walk to spread awareness of impaired driving and to honor the memory of Brieonna ‘Bree’ Sanders-Samora.

” Today is her one year anniversary so we are here to bring awareness to Fremont county and to keep her memory alive,” said Pamela Hamby, Sander-Samora’s mother.

Sanders-Samora was driving on Highway 50 toward Pueblo to take her one-year-old child to the Parkview Medical when a drunk driver drove into oncoming traffic and hit her car head-on. The child survived but she didn’t.

Hamby, wants people to learn from her families loss. “You know we all have that mindset it’ll never happen to me,” said Hamby. “I was in that mindset, it will never happen to us. You are never supposed to outlive your kid.”

MADD or Mothers Against Drunk Driving helped organize Saturdays walk.

Jeff Trujillo of MADD says smaller communities like Canon City don’t always have the resources to properly address the impaired driving problem.

“(Drunk driving) doesn’t discriminate,” said Trujillo. “It doesn’t care if you are in a small town or if you are on a rural road. The likelihood of getting hit by a drunk driving crash is just as high everywhere.”

“We have a drug problem here in canon as well,” pointed out Hamby. “You can still kill someone being high.”

Between spreading awareness and showing her daughter love, Hamby says Saturday’s walk was a win-win.

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