Ahead of Super Bowl 58 , local nonprofit STOP DUI, Nevada State Police, and families who lost loved ones to impaired drivers came together to ask drivers to think before they get behind the wheel.
During a press conference Thursday morning, inside the NSP Southern Command Headquarters, each family member shared their stories as they held a picture of a loved one whose life were taken too soon.
“It gets easier to hide your emotions but it feels like it just happened yesterday,” said Robin Wynkoop, who lost her mother to an impaired driver.
Wynkoop’s mother was killed by an impaired driver nearly 15 years ago. Her mother, Patricia Hoff, was waiting at a bus stop near Boulder and Flamingo with her friend, Porshe Hughes, when an impaired driver plowed into them.
KTNV “Steven Murray came and crashed right into the bus stop. He was high on prescription pills. So that’s another thing that people think. ‘Oh. I didn’t take that many pills. I am fine.’ You can still over-prescribe yourself. He over-prescribed himself, so he went to prison. But during COVID, they overturned his sentence, so he is out right now,” Wynkoop said. “And he’s had three prior DUIs, so it just hurts that certain people won’t get the message: ‘Hey. I had one prior DUI maybe I should stop.'”