COLUMBIA, SC : Mother requests flowers at site of DUI crash on Monday, 21st September, 2020

Monday, Sept. 21, would have been the 25th birthday of University of South Carolina student, David Newell, killed by a drunk driver while riding his moped in downtown Columbia nearly three years ago.
Last week, David’s mother, Annette Newell, made a post on social media asking if someone would drop off flowers to the crash site where her son was hit near 1830 Rosewood Drive. Annette lives out-of-state and says, already, the response has been overwhelming.
The crash happened on Nov. 15, 2017 just before David was set to return home to Maryland for the Thanksgiving holiday. That would never happen because around 7:30 that night, the UofSC senior was struck from behind by a driver officials described as “grossly intoxicated,” and driving double the posted speed limit.
That driver, Charles Davenport Jr., has since been sentenced to 20 years behind bars.
As we mark what would have been David’s 25th birthday, one UofSC parent who has never met the Newell family wants to help.
Kandie Wright saw Annette’s post requesting flowers and said just sending your children to college is difficult enough.
She said, “I don’t even pretend to be able to imagine what she or her family has gone through, but we just all see our children that we’re having to let go of, a little bit, go over there and begin their little life and we want to protect them forever and what’s happened to her is the worst thing that any of us could ever imagine.”

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