20/08/2026
Another heartbreaking loss 😔💔
Something woke Susan in the middle of an August night in 2011. Perhaps she sensed her life was about to change forever…
Minutes later the police were at her door. They asked about her 23-year-old daughter, Ashley, and Susan knew instantly something terrible had happened. She began to tremble.
“I sat down on the stairs and the officer knelt beside me. He told me my daughter had passed away in a car crash,” Susan recalls. “He asked me if there was someone I could call. I couldn’t hold the phone. I couldn’t even move. I just curled up in the fetal position.”
Everything stopped that night for Susan and her two other children. Life, as they knew it, ended the moment someone made the decision to drive impaired, robbing them of a beautiful daughter… a dear sister. It’s hard to imagine their lives could ever begin again.
Slowly, painfully, Susan and her family began to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. But they didn’t do it alone. “MADD Canada provided us with the tools to cope and survive,” says Susan. “They gave us the strength to know our lives were going to move on.”
Too many families know the devastation of losing a loved one to impaired driving. In an instant, their lives are changed forever, left to navigate unimaginable grief and loss.
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Together, we can offer hope and ensure that no one has to face this journey alone.
Sincerely,
Tanya Hansen Pratt
National President MADD Canada
