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21.09.2014

Beautiful, fit, 22. In love with life, with a guy, too.

That morning of Thursday, Sept. 2, Vanessa Marie Fernandez had started theater and dance classes at Truckee Meadows Community College. Someday she be up in the bright lights, the ether. to put J Lo to down lo, she jotted in her journal.

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That night, the Men Club was kind of dead. A slow Thursday crept past midnight. She decided to leave canada goose gilet uk early. Climbed in her light blue 2002 BMW 330. Punched boyfriend, Dave buttons on her cell. No answer. Left a message: if you not answering the phone, you must be sleeping. All right, baby, I hope you have sweet dreams. Fading summer warmth. Roads dry and clear. Magic kingdom casino towers quickly lost behind. Lanes rising, dipping with the terrain. Speeding now past the outer subdivisions snoozing in the hills winking with dull orange streetlights. Wouldn be long until the exits to Verdi, neon of the truck stop/hotel casino Boomtown, California border and the sudden quiescence canada goose outlet shop of the climb into the forested Sierra and the eventual turnoff in Truckee to Highway 89 leading to Lake Tahoe, to home.

Semis in the right lane. She zoomed in the left. Highway tilted downward, bending in a long curve.

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Before leaving the apartment not far from the I 80 ramps off Robb Drive, he downed a couple glasses of wine at dinner, then a couple beers. Maybe more? canada goose garson vest uk His wife, 25 year old Andria, was in bed. He got in the red 1995 BMW 325 registered to her. Drove down Robb, jumped on the I 80 entrance heading west. Three and one half miles. Exit 5 into east Verdi. Wound along the two lane of Old canada goose mens uk Highway 40. Pulled up in front of the Bar M Bar.

Wood A frame flanked by pines. Yanked the door. Jukebox, pool table, darts, familiar faces. Cheery lady bartender. Elevated TVs. Sign behind bar: Trust A Man Who Doesn Drink.

There Debbie. Friend of his and Andria Debbie who later insisted on driving him home. She first popped into the restroom. He split.

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Was he bracing for the reaction back home? Or just in a general stupor? For where the highway forked at its east canada goose outlet black friday sale end, he didn veer gently to the right to stay in his lane, to carry under I 80 overpasses and up the onramp eastbound. Instead, the Beemer drifted slightly left, passed between signs either side of the opposite lane. Each canada goose outlet netherlands bore a red orb bisected by a white bar, and a message in white:

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Split second more: Her dream within a dream was obliterated.

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Two casualties in 150 some DUI related crashes a year in northwest Nevada. (About 1,200 DUI arrests prevent more.)

Two of 25,000 fatalities per year in the United States in alcohol related accidents, despite a quarter century of awareness campaigns.

Because DUIs no longer are a sexy media issue, there is no searing angle to this story. Hot topics grab headlines, cool, fade for fresher issues: road rage, cell phones.

But there are stories behind statistics, faces behind cold sterile facts. Broader arcs, timeless themes to impose perspective, ascribe meaning to seemingly senseless events. Philosophical arguments to explain why someone innocent loses her life to someone reckless.

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