Ashley Lang Finalist Never Drink and Drive Scholarship 2022

Ashley LangScholarship Finalist Essay

Ashley Lang
Major: Not Listed / Other
School: Concorde Career College

When I was 10 years old, I was run over by a drunk driver. I don’t really have any memories from that night or most of my childhood due to the severity of the accident. I remember waking up in a hospital bed and seeing my dad sleeping in a chair next to me, with me being completely unaware of what had happened to me. I had to relearn everything. I had to relearn writing, walking, talking, people and places. After coming out of the hospital, I also had to homeschool myself in the fifth grade because I missed my enrollment and I didn’t want to fall a year behind due to the careless acts of an intoxicated driver.

A woman got intoxicated and decided to go behind the wheel of her car and she ran over a ten-year-old girl that was just minutes away from her front door. My mom was waiting to hear my footsteps running up the front porch steps, but instead she heard sirens and police officers knocking at her door and telling her that her daughter had just been run over. My older sister with mental disabilities saw everything and had to give a report to the police as she was yelling at my lifeless body in the middle of the street, thinking the worst as she had just seen a car crash into my body.

I went through so much after being hit, but what had the biggest impact on me was my family and what they went through. To this day, my family will not discuss my time in the hospital or the ordeal, even when I ask about it. That drunk driver changed our lives forever with the selfish, irresponsible decision she made 20 years ago.


Ashley Lang is one of six finalists for the Johnson Attorneys Group Never Drink and Drive $1,000 scholarship for spring 2022. The winner will be announced later this month.

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