DENVER — As the Colorado Department of Transportation launches a 15-day holiday DUI enforcement period, one grieving family is sharing their son’s story to remind drivers that every impaired crash is preventable.

“He's always been a part of us. He will always be a part of us,” said his father, Howard Small, adding that Ethan continues to live on in them.

Ethan, who was working as a Lyft driver for extra income, had just dropped off a passenger at a Denver park-and-ride when a drunk driver crashed into his car.

"He had dropped off the passenger, then was proceeding through an intersection with a green light, and the person who murdered him was going approximately 100 miles an hour," said Howard Small. "[The driver] blew through a red light and broadsided my son's car. That day was the be

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