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Mother of college student killed by drunk driver speaks at MADD event in Kendall County · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Mother of college student killed by drunk driver speaks at
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  Speaker 1: mad event in Kendall County. Written by Eric Shalkop, this
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  Speaker 1: article is being read by an automated voice brought to
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  Speaker 1: you by Everlett Michel and Keith Gansberg. Hope no other
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  Speaker 1: family has to experience the pain of having a loved
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  Speaker 1: one killed by a drunk driver. Their twenty one year
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  Speaker 1: old daughter, Kaylee Gansburg of Liisel, was hit in August
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two while she was walking near the campus
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  Speaker 1: of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She was a
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  Speaker 1: senior at the time. Angel Hostiguin twenty two, of Kalamazoo
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  Speaker 1: was sentenced to between four point five years and fifteen
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  Speaker 1: years in prison after pleading guilty to operating while intoxicated
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  Speaker 1: causing death. I truly am humbled to stand in front
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  Speaker 1: of you and tell you that what you do every
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  Speaker 1: day matters, mckelly Gansburg told law enforcement officers gathered at
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  Speaker 1: the Oswego Place on April eighteenth. Please know that my
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  Speaker 1: family and I appreciate the line that you walk every
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  Speaker 1: time you go out to keep the community safe. Gansburg said.
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  Speaker 1: She spoke as part of a saturation patrol roll call
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  Speaker 1: hosted by Mothers Against Drunk Driving in Illinois, Missouri that
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  Speaker 1: was focused on getting impaired drivers off the road. Among
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  Speaker 1: those in attendance that night were officers from the Oswego, Yorkville, Plainfield,
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  Speaker 1: and Plano police departments, as well as officers from the
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  Speaker 1: Kendall County Sheriff's Office. At the same time as the
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  Speaker 1: presentation in Oswego, there was another presentation in Saint Louis, Missouri. Afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement officers patrolled the streets looking for impaired drivers.
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  Speaker 1: This partnership reflects the reality that impaired driving does not
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  Speaker 1: stop at state lines, said Cecilia Miglio, court monitoring manager
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  Speaker 1: for the MAD organization in Illinois, and neither does our
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  Speaker 1: commitment to addressing it. Our purpose is simple. It is
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  Speaker 1: to end impaired driving and to continue to support our
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  Speaker 1: victims and prevent it from happening altogether, she said. DUI
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  Speaker 1: enforcement literally saves lives, and that is the foundation of
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  Speaker 1: everything we do here at MAD, said Miglio. When the
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  Speaker 1: community sees active enforcement, it creates a powerful deterrent effect.
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  Speaker 1: It changes behavior before someone even makes the decision to
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  Speaker 1: drive impaired Miglio said the goal of the effort is
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  Speaker 1: to increase DUI enforcement and to let the public know
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  Speaker 1: that officers are out patrolling for impaired drivers. Our organization
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  Speaker 1: has helped decrease impaired driving by about forty percent since
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  Speaker 1: we've been around, she said. MAD was founded in nineteen eighty.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Gansburg said she wanted to let people know more
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  Speaker 1: about her daughter, being able to say her name, being
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  Speaker 1: able to make her come alive again. Tonight with these officers,
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  Speaker 1: she becomes a person again, Gansburg said after the presentation,
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  Speaker 1: and that is so powerful to me. Nobody wants their
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  Speaker 1: loved one's life to mean something in this way, but
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  Speaker 1: if this is what we have, I want to make
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  Speaker 1: her proud. Keith Gansberg said they wanted to make sure
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  Speaker 1: the police officers who attended the presentation know that they
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  Speaker 1: make a difference that one person that they pull over
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  Speaker 1: and they stop for a DUI that could prevent a
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  Speaker 1: terrible crash, he said. Oswego Police Chief Jason Basten said
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  Speaker 1: the department strives to make roadways safer. Three years in
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  Speaker 1: a row now, that's been one of our goals. He said.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that officers can do to save
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  Speaker 1: a life is to stop a drunk driver. Every time
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  Speaker 1: we stop a drunk driver, I feel like we've saved
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  Speaker 1: at least one life. Oswego has experienced dui crashes that
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  Speaker 1: have taken multiple lives at once. Basting said, so officers
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  Speaker 1: could be saving more than one life. What's great about
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  Speaker 1: having someone like Michelle come in and tell her story
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  Speaker 1: is that really helps inspire our officers and put a
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  Speaker 1: face to a cause.