Missouri Law Would Require Drunk Drivers to Pay Child Support if Parent is Killed in Car Crash

A Missouri woman who lost three loved ones in an alleged drunk driving crash is trying to help the children of the victims of drunk drivers in similar circumstances. 

Cecilia Williams is urging state legislators to support a newly proposed law called “Bentley’s Law” in honor of her 5-year old grandson.

Williams began working on the legislation that targets drunk drivers after an accident in April killed her 30-year-old son Cordell Williams; his fiance, 25-year-old Lacey Newton; and their 4-month-old son, Cordell Shawn Michael Williams.

The grandmother is now left to care for the couple’s two remaining children, who survived the crash.

“The main aspect of Bentley’s law is financial responsibility by the offender,” Williams told a local news outlet.

Williams proposed law would require drunk drivers who cause the death of a parent or parents to pay child support to a surviving spouse or the relatives raising the victim’s children until the children turn 18.