A Grieving Mum’s Heartbreaking Post About Drink Driving Has Gone Viral With Its Powerful Message

A grieving mum has shared a heartbreaking post on social media, that has an incredibly important message beneath the tragic story of losing her two children, who were killed by a drunk driver in a road accident. 

Sarah Jane Pascoe-Hudson’s Facebook post has touched peoples’ hearts as she urges people to be careful and to not drink drive, as it has left her with a “lifetime of sorrow”, along with so many other families.

The mum shared a photo on Facebook of herself with her three children, Peter (two-years-old), and his older siblings Matthew, 12, and Lucy, 10. In the post, she describes her children as “my world, my joy, my life”.

Sarah states she thinks the post was taken approximately two weeks before Matthew and Lucy were killed by a drunk driver. “They went to a football match with their dad one summer evening in July 1996, and never came home,” the post reads.

“The drunk driver hit the car they were in head-on. Matthew died instantly, and Lucy 3 hours later in surgery. Their friend Ben, died 6 days later in hospital. Their father was horribly injured but survived the accident… well, physically anyway, as memories never die. The drunk driver was pronounced dead at the scene. My mum always said that he got away lightly.”

The post continued to read: “In the few seconds that it took to veer off his side of the road, that drunk driver smashed our world into tiny pieces. Little brother Peter’s grief and confusion regarding his siblings ‘disappearance’ was immense. You can only tell a 2-year-old the very basics, but the fact that he stopped talking for weeks, and carried around for months a little car that Matthew had given him that day, often watching and waiting at the window, told of his pain.