Teen driving, speeding, texting

Mourning Mom: 'I Feel Like I'm Living In Hell'
Woman Talks About Losing Her Sons In Crash
POSTED: 10:21 am CDT September 16, 2011
UPDATED: 10:33 am CDT September 16, 2011
KETV.com

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa -- A mother calls her life a "living hell" without her two little boys. Nina McNeese's children died instantly in a head-on collision on Highway 48 south of Red Oak just after Thanksgiving last year.

The head-on crash hurt McNeese so badly that she had to relearn how to walk.

Now, McNeese is speaking out in hopes of keeping others and their children safe on the road.

....McNeese and her boys were on their way home to put up their Christmas tree, but they never made it because of a head-on collision with 18-year-old Karli Jo Brown.

Court records show Brown was traveling at 74 mph in a 55 mph zone, texting on a cellphone and passing in a No Passing zone.

McNeese was critically hurt, and her boys -- 4-year-old Alexander and 5-year-old Maliki -- died on impact.

"I had to sit there, pinned underneath a freaking engine while my babies were dead. I couldn't even hold them," McNeese said.

Brown pleaded guilty last week to two counts of vehicular homicide by reckless driving.

....Brown faces up to 20 years in prison, but McNeese said that's not enough.

....McNeese wants drivers to remember to put down the phone.

"When you make these choices, there are bad consequences from them. People die," McNeese said.

Brown's attorney said it was his client's choice to plead guilty and avoid a trial.

"All she can tell me was she certainly wasn't intending on hurting anybody and deals with that every day," Seth Baldwin said.

Baldwin said his client admits speeding and passing in a No Passing zone; however, she maintains she was not texting. Investigators said cellphone records indicate otherwise.

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As an old daddy, I know all about this teen girl arrogance. She even tried to LIE her way out of it after it happened.  And there is NOTHING you are allowed to do about it.