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Biography of Candy Lightner
Name: Candy Lightner
Birth Date: May 30, 1946
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Pasadena, California, United States of America
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: activist
Candy Lightner
Candy Lightner (born 1946) transformed a personal tragedy into a crusade against drunk driving. She founded Mothers Against Drunk Driving, a grass-roots organization dedicated to curbing alcohol-related traffic deaths.Lightner was born May 30, 1946, to Dykes Charles Dodderidge and Katherine Dodderidge in Pasadena, California. She graduated from high school in 1964. After attending American River College in Sacramento, she married Steve Lightner, who was a U.S. Air Force serviceman like her father. Together they had three children. After her divorce from Steve, Candy Lightner supported herself by selling real estate in Fair Oaks, California. She had lived there for eight years when her life was turned upside down by tragedy on May 3, 1980.Lightner's 13-year-old daughter Cari, while walking down a quiet street, was struck from behind by a car. The impact threw Cari 125 feet, knocking off her shoes and mutilating her body so badly that it was not possible to save her …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…A small segment of our drinking/driving population causes the majority of the fatalities. So why aren't we going after them?"Challenging rumors that she'd gone soft on drunk driving, Lightner maintained that she favored enforcement of existing laws that allow police to take away the cars of repeat drunk drivers. "I am still amazed that the man who killed my daughter is barred from ever owning a handgun," she told Griffin, "but he can own a car." Associated Organizations Further Reading Lightner, Candy and Nancy Hathaway, Giving Sorrow Words: How to Cope with Grief and Get on with Your Life, Warner Books, 1990.Prominent Women of the 20th Century, edited by Peggy Saari, UXL, 1996.Who's Who of American Women, Reed Reference, 1993-94.50 Plus, May 1983.Health, July/August 1994.Life, fall 1989.North Country Times, March 3, 1996.Vogue, April 1986.Mothers Against Drunk Driving, http://www.madd.org (March 8, 1999).Women's International Center, http://wic.org (March 4, 1999).
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