What is it going to take to get through to you that YES it could and WILL happen to your son or daughter and that a LIFE WILL BE CUT SHORT without reason. There are ways to decrease the number of senseless teen deaths. Just like YOU I would not have given this topic a thought until May 16th, 2006.
Do something to prevent your heart from breaking. Don’t be complacent parents in some kind of bubble that does not exist like I was. Believe it will happen to you or someone you know, because IT WILL.
Torri Wightman Safe Driving Fund
Saturday, March 8, 2008 at 11:56PM … the remarkable woman who has taken on the cause in the spirit of Torri…
South Shore Charter Public School
Saturday, March 8, 2008 at 11:51PM Here is the first class of newly skilled drivers required by the Souh Shore Charter Public School to take Advanced Driver Training thereby earning the privilege to drive a vehicle on school property.
Torri Wightman Benefit - The Salem News
Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 10:25AM Thank you Michelle Morrissey
About Torri from a Stranger
Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 11:01AM I’m also sixteen and just the fact that it was a car accident…it’s just so scary. She wasn’t even driving and yet it happened anyway. I recently just got my permit and now every time I think about driving, I become concerned and actually kind of frightened. I’m not really sure what I am trying to say, but just the thought of someone just so captivating and absolutely beautiful being taken away from this Earth like that.
Required at the South Shore Charter Public School
Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 05:39PM That is the goal of accident prevention training: to get drivers comfortable with maneuvering in dangerous situations before they encounter them on the road, said Dan Strollo, president of In Control Advanced Driver Training.
The four-hour course is now required for any student at South Shore Charter School who wants a parking permit. It is the first school in the area to require training in addition to traditional driver’s education, Strollo said.
PRESS Mother hopes safe-driving course spares other parents her pain
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 at 08:02PM Today, the first two groups of students from South Shore Charter School in Norwell, where Torri was a student, will be at the South Weymouth Naval Air Station for a course on driving.
PRESS Preventing Tragedy
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 at 07:59PM Students at South Shore Charter School in Norwell who want to take a car to classes are now required to complete a 4 -hour advanced driver training course to earn parking privileges.
PRESS Torri's Law
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 at 04:02PM 36% of teenage fatalities happen in automobiles. It is the leading cause of death for those aged 16 to 20. Torri Wightman was 16 years and 53 days old when she rode in the back seat of the car she died in at 11 am on a rainy Tuesday. Had the teenage driver taken advanced driver skills training there is more than a 70% chance that my only child would be alive.
The CDC reports that the most strict and comprehensive graduated drivers licensing programs are associated with reductions of 38% and 40% in fatal and injury crashes, respectively, of 16-year-old drivers (Baker et al. 2007).
LAW Raking Leaves and Questions
Monday, October 29, 2007 at 09:31PM Today while I raked the leaves over the solid green grass that covers my only child’s dead body I wondered why, of the 430 people killed in car crashes this year in Massachusetts, why her? I wonder when I hear the news of another avoidable young death, why her or why him? The latter question is more able to be answered.
LAW South Shore Charter Public School
Monday, October 22, 2007 at 07:57PM If the driver of Torri’s car had taken it, there is as high as a 95% chance my Bean would be here today.
Grieving mother's sentencing call
Friday, October 19, 2007 at 11:12PM A mother whose daughter was killed by a teenage motorist has said proposals to reduce road deaths must be backed up by tougher sentencing in the courts.
Elizabeth Davidson, from Hamilton, lost her daughter Margaret, 26, in a car crash in May. Her 19-year-old killer was sentenced to four years in jail.
Ms Davidson said courts must impose the maximum sentence available of 14 years.
Her call was made as she backed plans by insurers to make learner drivers take lessons for at least 12 months.
LAW The Epidemic
Friday, October 12, 2007 at 08:41AM To connect to what is real… someone’s daughter or son, a child’s body alone and dying without a chance… bleeding, convulsing, writhing in a lonely, senseless death - it is too much to feel. Maybe this is why no one is doing a damn thing about the problem, the epidemic that actually has its vaccinations.
Is Kingston at Risk from Mutual Aid Debacle?
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 08:21PM 17 year old Kingstonian Erin Leith was being charged with vehicular homicide. Leith was the driver of the vehicle involved in the May 16 crash on Route 106 in Plympton that 
claimed the life of 16 year old Victoria Wightman
Torri’s Last Ride
Boston Globe Reports Disturbing Driver Statistics
Friday, August 31, 2007 at 10:56AM Faster and faster
From 2000 to 2004, each year showed an increase in the percentage of speeding citations that were 20 miles per hour or more over the speed limit.
| Mph over speed limit | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |
| 20 | 28.7 | 29.7 | 31.3 | 33.8 | 37.1 |
| 25 | 11 | 11.3 | 12 | 13.4 | 15 |
| 30 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 5.1 | 5.8 |
| 35 | 1.8 | 1.9 | 2 | 2.2 | 2.4 |
Source: Boston Globe analysis of Registry of Motor Vehicles figures 
Kingston Observer Bias
Monday, June 25, 2007 at 08:40AM I checked in tonight after a while away and noticed, thankfully, that your paper has finally taken down the gory and cruel pictures of Torri Wightman under a sheet in the car where she was killed by Erin Leith’s driving. This took over 10 months to do? despite what seemed to be the pleading requests of Torri’s family and friends?
Teens Killed in Cars
Sunday, March 25, 2007 at 12:42AM 
Erin Leith and Accountability
Monday, November 27, 2006 at 08:50AM Not long after Erin Leith allegedly drove almost twice the speed limit on Rte 106 killing my daughter and severely injuring two others, she was pulled over for driving erratically and having alcohol in her car with minors as passengers. I do not know WHY she would still have a license. Then again, because of the criminal charges filed, I am not able to know what really happened that day. I do know that never have we gotten an apology or any expression of grief or remorse from Erin Leith.
The man who first saw Torri’s body said her hand was on the door handle as though she might have been trying to get out. Maybe she was scared. Maybe she lost her voice. Maybe she did not have to die and cut short a life in the making.
Included here are two articles regarding Erin Leith’s recent arrest and comments posted on the Kingston Observer website. The topic has since been removed. Erin Leith was finally charged with vehicular homicide. i do not know if she continues to drive.