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Letter: Father of crash victim agrees: Change needed
Allison Deutscher, her husband, Aaron, 18-month-old daughter Brielle and an unborn baby were killed in a senseless head-on collision west of Jamestown, N.D., July 6 by a drunken driver going the wrong way on Interstate 94.
Sunday, October, 14, 2012 - INFORUM - Opinion

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North Dakota drunken-driving laws to be targeted for harsher penalties
FARGO - The doctor never spent a night in jail. It was April 1980, prom night at Fargo’s North High. Fifteen-year-old Leah Eisenhardt and her friends weren’t old enough to go, so they went to Dairy Queen instead and headed home for a sleepover.
Saturday, October, 06, 2012 - INFORUM - News

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Unacceptable acceptance: As alcohol crash deaths fall in US, they shoot up in North Dakota
WEBSTER N.D. - A rainy night on Easter weekend. A cluster of lights on the road that didn’t look right. The sickening realization that one of the cars in the wreck ahead contained a dead man – and the other contained Renee Loehr’s brother and three sisters.
Friday, October, 05, 2012 - INFORUM - News

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Kindness is Contagious: Couple offer help amid family’s pain
My heart aches when I see tragedy in this world, especially tragedy that could have been avoided. That’s how I felt the morning of July 7 when I opened the paper and read about the Deutschers, a young couple and their 1-year-old daughter, who were killed the night before in an accident with a drunken driver.
Saturday, September, 22, 2012 - INFORUM - Life

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DUI crackdown dedicated to West Fargo family killed in crash
Relatives call for education, stiffer penalties
MOORHEAD – After receiving the devastating word that his pregnant sister and her family were killed by a drunken driver, Eric “Festus” Mickelson had to break the news to his own family, including his 8-year-old son, Colton.
Monday, August, 13, 2012 - INFORUM - News

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Forum praised for crash reports
I could not disagree more with Cortney Mullins (letter, July 28), and perhaps she would be singing a different tune had she known the Deutscher family personally.
Thursday, August, 09, 2012 - INFORUM - Opinion

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Boss: Wrong-way driver ‘wasn’t bad guy’
Business owner says Klein was trying to turn life around before crash that killed West Fargo family
GACKLE, N.D. – Wyatt Klein never had any problems at his welding job at Double J Manufacturing here. The deaf 28-year-old was even teaching sign language to some of his co-workers, his boss said.
Friday, August, 03, 2012 - INFORUM - News

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Forum coverage of crash too much
A great tragedy took the lives of four people and one unborn baby July 6.
Saturday, July, 28, 2012 - INFORUM - Opinion

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Report: Drivers tried to avoid each other in final moment
Drunken driver left rest area west of Jamestown in wrong direction, swerved into WF family’s lane of traffic, killing himself, family of three
JAMESTOWN, N.D. – The drivers of both vehicles tried to take evasive action just before a head-on crash July 6 that killed a West Fargo family of three and the drunken driver going the wrong way on Interstate 94, according to the state Highway Patrol’s final crash report released Thursday. The crash investigation found no pre-impact skid marks from either vehicle, the report says.
Friday, July, 27, 2012 - INFORUM - News

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In lieu of jail, DUI offenders got option of attending Deutscher family’s funeral
FARGO – As part of his punishment for drinking and driving, the Fargo man was given a choice: attend the funeral of a West Fargo family killed by a drunken driver heading the wrong way on Interstate 94 or serve five more days in jail.
Friday, July, 27, 2012 - INFORUM - News

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Allan Bakkerud’s letter to court
Allan Bakkerud, 55, was one of three DUI offenders given the opportunity to attend the funeral of the Deutscher family in lieu of more time in jail. Bakkerud attended the funeral, and wrote a letter to the court as proof of attendance.
Friday, July, 27, 2012 - INFORUM - News

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After wrong-way driver's 10 drinks at two bars, a last-second swerve in I-94 quadruple fatal
JAMESTOWN, N.D. – The drivers of both vehicles tried to take evasive action just before a head-on crash July 6 that killed a West Fargo family of three and the drunken driver going the wrong way on Interstate 94, according to the state Highway Patrol’s final crash report released Thursday.
Thursday, July, 26, 2012 - INFORUM - News

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Authorities hope unidentified trucker can shed light on wrong-way collision
JAMESTOWN, N.D. – The Highway Patrol has finished reconstructing a head-on crash that killed four people, including a West Fargo family of three, on Interstate 94 west of Jamestown, Lt. Aaron Hummel said Monday.
Tuesday, July, 24, 2012 - INFORUM - News

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My prayers are with family
I am writing about the tragic accident that happened on Interstate 94.
Friday, July, 20, 2012 - INFORUM - Opinion

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Driver in crash that killed West Fargo family was three times over legal limit
JAMESTOWN, N.D. – The driver of a pickup truck that was going the wrong way on Interstate 94 when it crashed head-on into a West Fargo family’s car, killing all three people inside, had a blood alcohol concentration more than three times the legal limit of 0.08 percent for driving, the North Dakota Highway Patrol said Wednesday.
Wednesday, July, 18, 2012 - INFORUM - News

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ND’s DUI laws are not adequate
The DUI fines in North Dakota are a mere pittance compared to a lot of other states.
Sunday, July, 15, 2012 - INFORUM - Opinion

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Fund set up for family killed in interstate crash
FARGO – A benefit fund has been established for a West Fargo family killed in a head-on crash Friday on Interstate 94 west of Jamestown.
Thursday, July, 12, 2012 - INFORUM - News

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Aaron Deutscher
Funeral services for Aaron, 34, and Allison Deutscher, 36, and their daughter, Brielle, 1 ½, West Fargo, ND, who died in a tragic motor vehicle collision on Friday, July 6, 2012, will be held at 2:00 pm Thursday, July 12, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Moorhead, MN. Visitation will be held from 5-9 pm Wednesday, July 11, at Parkway Funeral Service, 2330 Tyler Parkway, Bismarck, where a prayer service will begin at 7:00 pm. Visitation will continue from 12:00 noon - 2:00 pm Thursday at Trinity Lutheran Church, Moorhead.

Graveside services will be held at Fairview Cemetery in Bismarck on Friday.
Wednesday, July, 11, 2012 - INFORUM - Obits

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Attitudes about drinking and driving an ‘uphill battle’ in North Dakota
BISMARCK – Days after a West Fargo family was killed in an alcohol-related crash, officials debated Monday how to address North Dakota’s growing problem of drunken driving, with some blaming society’s lax attitudes and others pushing for tougher state laws.
Tuesday, July, 10, 2012 - INFORUM - News

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Wrong-way driver in I-94 crash had history of alcohol, drug offenses
JAMESTOWN, N.D. - The man driving the wrong way on Interstate 94 in a deadly crash Friday had a history of drinking and driving, drug violations and other offenses, according to court records in North Dakota and Minnesota.
Monday, July, 09, 2012 - INFORUM - News

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