Brandon silveria biography
Brandon silveria biography
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Drinking and driving changed his life forever
LIHU’E — Brandon Silveria made a decision that changed his life forever.
“What was the big deal with having a couple drinks?
Everyone else was doing it,” he said to about 300 students at Kaua’i High School Monday.
Silveria found out the hard way that drinking and driving do not mix.
Shortly before his high school prom in Los Gatos, Calif., he got into a near-fatal crash after drinking a couple beers at a high school party on a Saturday night.
“My car veered off the road and smashed full speed into a tree,” he said, of the 1987 crash.
Silveria fell asleep at the wheel and his car crossed the center line.
He ended up in a coma for 2 months, and spent five years learning how to walk and talk again.
He was so badly injured that he has permanent brain damage, suffers from seizures, and has permanent and visible speech and walking difficulties.
He said that he made a stupid mistake, drinking then dri