In a solemn reminder of the consequences that can ripple through lives from decisions made behind the wheel. The Oklahoma City Police Department took to social media with a potent message against driving under the influence Their recent post starkly laid bare the tragedy of Kim Tiderman-Alcorn, who, on May 17, 2007, suffered the unfathomable loss of her husband, Oklahoma City Fire Department Lieutenant Michael Tiderman, and their 11-year-old son Justin—both lives claimed by a driver impaired by drugs or alcohol.
This jarring invocation of the past where the Oklahoma City Police Department implores the public to acknowledge the gravity of driving while intoxicated, it articulates the irreversible void that such actions can engender by sharing Kim Tiderman-Alcorn’s harrowing ordeal—an ordeal that saw her young son laid to rest on what would have been his 12th birthday beside his father, as the driving under the influence not only ended two lives but shattered a family, leaving behind a grief that time can assuage but never erase.
In their dispatch, the police department coupled the tragic narrative with the laconic yet profound hashtag #EndDUI, a clarion call for a collective commitment towards eradicating the all-too-common and entirely preventable scourge of impaired driving. The post, while a memorial to the loss Tiderman-Alcorn endured, also serves as a stark public service announcement, aiming to inform and deter potential impaired drivers from making a choice that could result in irreversible consequences…