PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Imagine getting hit head-on by a suspected drunk driver and being left with life-altering injuries — only to learn that a passenger riding with that same accused drunk driver is suing you for hundreds of thousands of dollars. It wasn’t hypothetical. It was reality for one Valley family.

The crash happened last month near State Route 238, west of Maricopa. Debi and Nathan McDaniel sat on their couch in their Maricopa home, exhausted and unsure how to answer some of the most difficult questions.

In an instant Debi and Nathan McDaniel, were transported back to the moment that changed everything.

“We were behind my daughter by about a minute on the road,” McDaniel recalled.

Their daughter had been driving home from a friend’s house when Debi saw what she described as

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