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"As drivers get on the road for Labor Day weekend, an Oklahoma family who lost two children in drunk driving incidents wants to remind drivers to stay sober.More than 160 people died in alcohol-related crashes in Oklahoma last year and three of those were over the Labor Day weekend, according to the Oklahoma Highway Safety Office.Roger Green and his wife, Anita, buried their son, Lance, and daughter, Amanda, after two drunk driving incidents that took place more than 15 years ago in Le Flore County.The couple recently relocated to McClain County.\"Alcohol took my family,\" Green said. \"Alcohol made life very hard to have to live.\"Green said Lance had always been teased for only drinking soda at parties. The first time Lance tried alcohol was his last.\"He got within nine miles of home (and went) off the side of a mountain,\" Green said. \"(The) truck took his life, all on the account of one six-pack of alcohol. It's such a waste.\"It's been 18 years since Green discovered his son's dead body.\"This crash made a pretty bad mess of my son's head,\" Green said. \u201CI remember holding his hand, laying my head on his stomach, to see if I could feel him breathing.\"Just two-and-a-half years later, 22-year-old Amanda's designated driver decided to have a couple of drinks and crashed into a pole.\"The car was doing 50 mph when the high line pole cut through the back of this little car into the front seat where my daughter was sitting,\" Green said. \"Her head stopped with so much force that it sloshed her brain in her skull and it broke her brain stem. She laid in that car and hemorrhaged to death.\"Without their children, the only legacy the Greens can now leave behind is their tragic story for others to learn a lesson.\"Me and my wife get through day by day as best we can and hope to God that no one else has to live through what we did,\" Green said.Law enforcement agencies around the state are upping patrols for the holiday weekend.If drivers finds themselves in an emergency situation, AAA is coordinating a free tow and ride home for many areas of the state within a 15-mile radius of the pickup point.Anyone who is need of a Tipsy Tow can call 1-800-AAA-HELP."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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