Westworld Alberta
Issue link: http://westworldmagazine.ama.ab.ca/i/245179
Anti-impaired-driving speaker Dominica Witt wears a Lego-man tattoo in memory of her late brother. Taking the Wheel R A young mom confronts her fears nine years after a crash with a drunk driver ain was pounding the windshield on the September day when Dominica Witt took her driving test. It made her nervous: she wasn't used to driving in wet weather. Plus, just a week earlier, she had failed her road test because of a few minor errors. So when the examiner looked up from his clipboard and told her she'd passed, 23-year-old Witt breathed a deep sigh of relief. Then she called her fiancé, James, to tell him the news. And her mom. "I was so proud of myself," she says. "It was a huge step." She went for sushi to celebrate with James, her best 46 W e s t w o r l d a l b e r ta | S p r i n g 2 0 14 p40-50_WorstDriving.indd 46 by Annalise Klingbeil friend and her two sons, Valontine, 3, and Cyrus, 1. Witt lost her younger brother in a crash with an impaired driver nine years ago. She and her family had been driving home after a day of shopping. She and eight-year-old Lukas were in the back seat of the family's Honda Civic, holding hands and reciting lines from a pizza commercial, when a one-tonne flat-deck truck crossed the centre line on Hwy. 1A, just west of Chestermere, and hit them, propelling the Honda into oncoming traffic, where it was T-boned by a taxi. Witt, her 25-year-old sister and their mother were seriously injured. Lukas died almost instantly. george webber 14-01-10 3:46 PM