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Family testimony at committee hearing: 'Please pass this bill' after deadly DUI crash
Summary
A principal witness described losing two children in a 2019 crash and urged the committee to pass AB 18 30, recounting the driver's multiple prior DUIs and a warrant for probation violation as reasons the device could have prevented the tragedy.
A principal witness told the Senate committee about a 2019 crash in which two children were killed and urged passage of AB 18 30. The witness described driving their family to Joshua Tree when a drunk driver struck them at high speed and identified the driver as someone with multiple prior DUIs and a warrant for a probation violation.
"My 17 year old daughter Ruby had just gotten a merit scholarship... My son Hart, 14 years old... A drunk driver going 90 miles an hour hit us at full speed, didn't touch the brakes... Their necks were snapped, and they were both dead," the witness said in emotional testimony, and asked the committee to pass the bill so other families might be spared similar tragedies. The witness also named the driver, Nicole Packer, and said that an interlock device might have prevented the crash.
Committee members, including supporters of the bill, responded to the testimony by citing the bill's life‑saving intent and urging rigorous implementation and oversight of the subsidy program and installer compliance.
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