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Early on Sunday
morning, September 19, 1999, Jacqueline
Saburido 20, and four friends were on their way home from a
birthday party. Reggie Stephey, an 18-year-old star
football player,
was on his way home from drinking beer
with some buddies. On a
dark road on the outskirts of
Austin, Texas, Reggie’s SUV veered
into the Oldsmobile
carrying Jacqui and the others.
Two passengers in the car were killed at the scene and
two were
rescued. Within minutes, the car caught fire.
Jacqui was pinned in
the front seat on the passenger
side. She was burned over 60% of
her body; no one thought she could survive. But Jacqui lived. Her
hands
were so badly
burned that she no longer can use them.
She lost her hair, her ears, her nose, her left eyelid
and much of her
vision. She has had more than 40
operations since the crash and
has many more to
go. In June 2001 Reggie Stephey was convicted
of
two counts of intoxication manslaughter for the deaths
of Jacqui’s
two friends. He
was sentenced to seven
years in prison and fined
$20,000.
Additional
information:
Help Jacqui web site: www.helpjacqui.com
or spanish
version
A Microsoft PowerPoint
file making the rounds of the Internet
presents the
viewer with a chilling slide show:
On 24 November 2003, Jacqui appeared as a guest
on
The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Poster
of Jacqueline Saburido
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911 call
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