A Father's Fight Against Underage Drinking
Jeff Levy, commissioner of the Fairfax County Oversight Committee on Drinking and Driving, spoke to parents and teens at a Citizens Advisory Committee meeting about his son's death.
During Jeff Levy's last conversation with his son, he asked Jon, a sophomore at Radford University, if he would ever get in a car with a drunk driver. "I’ll always remember the last words that my son said to me...'Trust me, Dad, I know better.' Those were the last words I remember my son saying on Wednesday night," said Levy. "And I really did trust him, and he really did know better. Sober." By Friday night, Jon was dead. He had gone to a Halloween party and then gotten into a car with a drunk driver, and one other student in the back seat. "They were last seen going up over a hill between between Radford and Virginia Tech," Levy said of that night in October 1997. "And the witnesses said they were going somewhere between 85 and 100 …
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Mary C. Stachyra
2:28 pm on Friday, May 18, 2012
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