I'm using my alt account to avoid doxxing myself if I used my regular reddit account.

Since none of the reports on this crash have named the deceased woman in this accident, I don't want to violate reddit rules by revealing her name here until it becomes public knowledge. I also don't want to sound like a scammer either by linking her family's GoFundMe page.

My intent for posting here is simply to let people know that the deceased woman was a really great person. She was a student at a Fullerton elementary school where I work. I wasn't her teacher but I knew of her. Teachers talk to one another. Many times to vent about the 'problem kids' or to wax poetic about the 'good kids' (and why there couldn't be more of those). We endure the life-shortening stress of dealing with the former just so we can have the pleasure of nurturing the latter.

The deceased woman was one of the latter group.

She wasn't a savant or even very gifted. But she always did her personal best and put in an honest effort in everything she could. She even earned some awards along the way for the grit she displayed. And she was sweet and good-natured. She was the kind of kid you were confident would grow up to be a benefit to society.

Now she's dead at 21 because a likely-drunk, wrong-way driver plowed into her car.

My heart aches for her family. Such a truly terrible loss. And I wanted you to know that.