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Drunk Driver and Mother of victim team up to deliver message about drunk driving

Greg Kahn/Staff Eric Smallridge, right, who is still serving an 11-year sentence, talks to students during a presentation at Barron Collier High School on the perils of drunk driving on April 18, 2012. In 2002, Smallridge killed two girls, Meagan Napier and Lisa Dickson when he drove home drunk after a night out with friends. Together, Smallridge and Renee Napier, meagan's mother, tour the state giving presentations on the dangers of drinking and driving.

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Greg Kahn/Staff Eric Smallridge, right, who is still serving an 11-year sentence, talks to students during a presentation at Barron Collier High School on the perils of drunk driving on April 18, 2012. In 2002, Smallridge killed two girls, Meagan Napier and Lisa Dickson when he drove home drunk after a night out with friends. Together, Smallridge and Renee Napier, meagan's mother, tour the state giving presentations on the dangers of drinking and driving.

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  • Greg Kahn/Staff Eric Smallridge, left the man who killed Meagan Napier in a drunk driving accident, is embraced by her mother, Renee, during a presentation at Barron Collier High School about the dangers of drunk driving on April 18, 2012. In 2002, Smallridge killed two girls, Meagan Napier and Lisa Dickson when he drove home drunk after a night out with friends. Together, Smallridge and Renee Napier, meagan's mother, tour the state giving presentations on the dangers of drinking and driving.
  • Greg Kahn/Staff Eric Smallridge, left, in his prison jumpsuit, waits offstage before a presentation at Barron Collier High School on the perils of drunk driving on April 18, 2012. In 2002, Smallridge killed two girls, Meagan Napier and Lisa Dickson when he drove home drunk after a night out with friends. Together, Smallridge and Renee Napier, meagan's mother, tour the state giving presentations on the dangers of drinking and driving.
  • Greg Kahn/Staff Renee Napier, left, whose daughter, Meagan, and friend Lisa Dickson, were killed by a drunk driver in 2002, is hugged by Barron Collier senior Alessandra Pelitera, center, after Napier's presentation to the high school on April 18, 2012. Eric Smallridge, the man responsible for Napier and Dickson's deaths, along with Renee Napier, are touring the state giving presentations on the dangers of drinking and driving.
  • Greg Kahn/Staff Kelly Cosgrove, a senior at Barron Collier High School, reacts as she watches a video memorializing Meagan Napier, a girl killed 10 years ago by a drunk driver. Meagan's mother, Renee, and the man responsible for the car crash, Eric Smallridge, gave a presentation to the junior and senior classes about the perils of drunk driving on April 18, 2012.
  • Greg Kahn/Staff Eric Smallridge, right, who is still serving an 11-year sentence, talks to students during a presentation at Barron Collier High School on the perils of drunk driving on April 18, 2012. In 2002, Smallridge killed two girls, Meagan Napier and Lisa Dickson when he drove home drunk after a night out with friends. Together, Smallridge and Renee Napier, meagan's mother, tour the state giving presentations on the dangers of drinking and driving.
  • Greg Kahn/Staff Renee Napier talks to Barron Collier High School students about the dangers of drunk driving on April 18, 2012. Napier's daughter, Meagan and her friend Lisa Dickson, were killed by a drunk driver in 2002.
  • Greg Kahn/Staff Barron Collier High School students walk past the wreckage of the car Meagan Napier and Lisa Dickson were in when they were struck and killed by a drunk driver in 2002. Meagan's mother, along with Eric Smallridge, the drunk driver who killed both girls, have teamed up to tell students about the perils of drinking and driving.

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