A family is hoping their tragedy can help lead to change.
"His name is Bean Dip and he matters."That’s what Eddie and Kelly Montalvo called their 21-year-old son Benjamin, who loved riding his bike and was killed while riding."Besides being under the influence, Bean's killer had exchanged 24 texts in the six minutes surrounding the crash," said Kelly Montalvo. "Then there's a gap of 59 seconds in which he stopped texting which was the exact minute that he struck and killed him.
It is with crash videos and empty chairs remembering victims of distracted driving crashes like Benjamin the Auto Club kicked off National Distracted Driving Awareness Month. The tribute also featured messages from speakers like Jasmine Ortega from the California Department of Insurance who says, "It only takes a moment to turn a routine trip into tragedy. Let's be real. We live in a world designed to distract us.
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