It has been just over a month since a West Fargo family was killed in a head on crash.
Aaron Deutscher, his wife Allison, and their 18-month-old daughter Brielle were all killed when a drunk driver collided with them on Interstate 94, 33 miles west of Jamestown on July 6.
Allison's dad Lynn Mickelson and sister Sarah Johnson are left with holes in their hearts. Mickelson says, "I'd almost say the last two weeks, two to three weeks have been worse than the first two."
Johnson, looking at photos of Allison says, "We never get to meet that baby. That baby doesn't get to come home. None of them got to come home."
Memories flash through their minds when they least expect it. "It's like a roller coaster. I mean one minute you're fine and the next minute you're not," says Johnson.
Neither are able to fathom that it has been more than a month since the day their family was killed in a crash by the drunk driver.
Amidst the day-to-day struggles are pictures found on a new camera that survived the crash. Mickelson, staring at one of them says, "There's a pic of little Brielle, feeling mommy's...feeling the new baby."
He continues with, "After this picture was taken, four days later they were both gone...four days, they were gone."
On Monday the family will be at the Moorhead Weigh Station, sharing photos and stories of their lost loved ones once again, in the kick-off of a national impaired driving crackdown campaign.
The local "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" campaign is dedicated to the Deutscher family, an honor not many families can speak of.
Mickelson says, "It didn't really mean that much as a passing event. It's a very good item, very good thing, but now it is here, now it's our family."
And it's another chance to have their message heard on a large scale. "Something big has got to change, and that is some laws, rules, penalties, guidelines, a combination of everything," says Mickelson.
The campaign also gives family members a chance to let everyone come to know Allison, Aaron and Brielle through the short but meaningful time they had. "They were a wonderful, young, loving, giving family. They've touched so many people, and you see that in everything that's come of this accident," says Johnson.
The campaign starts Monday at 10 a.m. Law enforcement from North Dakota and Minnesota will share details about it and statistics from previous years.
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