MORRISON - The new year weekend is notoriously one of the worst when it comes to drunk driving, but police say the roads are also filled with plenty of drugged-drivers
The father of a man from Colorado who was killed during a crash involving drugs last year is reminding drivers to be careful this holiday weekend.
He's sharing his son's story around the country in hopes people will think twice before getting behind the wheel under the influence.
"Your children should never die before you do," Ed Wood said.
Brian Wood never got to see his daughter.
"This is Sierra-Grace," Ed said while showing us a photo of Brian's daughter.
In September of 2010, Brian, then 33 years-old, and his pregnant wife were driving near Seattle, Washington when an SUV driven by a 21 year-old woman crashed into his car.
"They estimate it was 1 second by the time the SUV crossed the lane and hit him and took his life," Ed Wood said.
Brian was killed immediately, his wife Erin survived but was badly injured.
"This was just 2 months before his first child was to be born, it was 2 months before they were going to be celebrating their 5th wedding anniversary," Ed said.
The driver of the SUV and her front passenger survived, but the two men in the backseat were killed as well.
"They were well known drug dealers," Ed said.
Investigators found heroin, cocaine, marijuana and other drug paraphernalia in the SUV.
Troopers said they could smell marijuana around the SUV at the crash scene.
"This was not an accident, these women were at fault," Ed said.
Brian Wood graduated from Green Mountain High School and later became a well-known video game designer.
"He worked with several video game companies here in Colorado," Ed said.
Brian was the lead designer of the game, Company of Heroes, a war strategy game.
"He placed himself in front of the oncoming vehicle and his pregnant wife and the investigators at the scene said had he not done that his wife too would have been killed," Ed said.
Now Ed Wood is pushing for tougher laws nationwide to crack down on drugged-driving.
"The word has to get out, we've got people dying part of it is people doing their own self-destructive behavior," Ed said.
Brian may be gone, but his legacy lives on in the wife and daughter he left behind.
"She'll never know her Father but she's just an absolute delight," Ed said.