Here's a story about a young Tampa DUI hero. Perhaps it is the emotional stories that make the biggest impact and act as the biggest deterrent for would be DUI drivers. In Florida, one little girl has inspired at least one person to follow and stop a person suspected of drunk driving.
Drunk driver caught, thanks to Summer: "TAMPA - Weighing in at 40 pounds, Summer Moll doesn't have a badge or a gun, but deputies say her painful story of survival, of coming back from a deadly drunk driving crash on the Crosstown that killed her mother, is having an impact on the war against drunk driving.
BJ, who doesn't want his full name used, saw a driver weaving all over the interstate.
'It took about 20 miles before I could get anybody to get him stopped,' he said.
BJ called 911 and followed drunk driving suspect, Brian Beals. Turns out, court records show, it's Beals second DUI arrest.
'He almost hit four or five different vehicles including a bus,' BJ says. 'And after the little girl's mother got killed on the Crosstown, it was the right thing to do.'
BJ also says he's lost family to drunk drivers, and he's followed Summer's progress."
What's interesting for the BJ in this story is that it seems to have ben the death of the little girl's mother, not his own family member, that inspired his 20 mile chase. Whatever the reason, the more people are aware of the dangers of drunk driving, and the more negative emotional response they have to the idea, the less likely they may be to get behind the wheel of the vehicle after drinking too much.
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