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Just drive
After a tragic accident, Liz Mark's life has changed abruptly. With a moving video message, she now wants to save others from their fate.
Until her accident, American Liz Marks lived the life of a normal teenager. She was especially popular in school and had many friends. Many saw her as a role model. Like all other teenagers, Liz barely spent a second without her cell phone. She was always in control of keeping in touch with her friends around the clock.
Liz Marks could not put her cell phone out of her hands while driving a car. But the teen did not expect that that's what would ever happen to her. "I ignored the warnings about texting while driving, because everyone else did, I thought it was okay, I thought I was invincible, but obviously I was completely wrong."
For one day, when Liz is back at the wheel reading a message from her mother on her cell phone, she has a tragic car accident . As a result, 20-year-old Liz Marks is blind in one eye today, can no longer smell and can not hear properly anymore, as a bone broke and her eardrum was destroyed. In addition, the young woman will never cry again because her lacrimal glands are no longer functional and can never fall asleep again without the help of medication.
But after her accident, Liz is not only struggling with the physical disabilities. She is also very lonely. "At first, my friends were there for me, but after a while they were not anymore, they did not want me anymore, they did not want me anymore and all my problems."
When Liz's mother reads on her daughter's Facebook page that this other person online asks to spend time with her because she has no friends, it breaks her heart. At the same time, this Facebook post is the final catalyst for Liz sharing her moving story with her mother.
While Mother Betty warns against sending messages to anyone, knowing that they are in the car, Liz sends out the message, "If you get a message, do not look at her, it's not worth it."
Together with the National Road Safety Authority mother and daughter have published the following video:
