{"id":129900,"date":"2024-11-22T14:08:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T22:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madd.org\/?page_id=129900"},"modified":"2024-11-22T14:14:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T22:14:04","slug":"madd-ambassador-sheila-lockwood","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/madd.org\/madd-ambassador-sheila-lockwood\/","title":{"rendered":"MADD Ambassador Sheila Lockwood"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Sheila Lockwood became involved with MADD in June of 2018 when her oldest son, Austin, was senselessly killed by an impaired driver.\u00a0\u00a0On that date, her family\u2019s lives were shattered.\u00a0\u00a0Every hope, every dream, every plan she and her family had, was forever changed.<\/p>
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\nSheila has four children, all very close in age.\u00a0\u00a0She lost her oldest daughter, Taylor to SIDS.\u00a0\u00a0Austin was the third child and first son.\u00a0\u00a0Austin is 17 months younger than his sister, Morgan, and only 15 months older than his younger brother, Landon.\u00a0\u00a0The children were very close, and the boys were often mistaken for twins. The three grew up as best friends.\u00a0\u00a0The boys worked together, they played together, and they even went to college together.\u00a0\u00a0Austin celebrated completing college a month before the crash and his 23rd<\/sup>\u00a0birthday 15 days before the crash.\u00a0\u00a0Austin was working, living in a new home next to a river and loving his life.\u00a0\u00a0Austin was loved by everyone.\u00a0\u00a0He treated everyone with kindness.\u00a0\u00a0Selfless only begins to describe Austin and ultimately that selfless behavior is what took Austin from us.\u00a0\u00a0The drunk driver had a cabin that flooded and no one else had time to help clean it, only Austin.\u00a0\u00a0His kindness was paid back by taking his life. Austin was the passenger in the vehicle.\u00a0 The driver had a BAC of 0.117 almost 3 hours after the crash, he was going 70 mph in a 40-mph zone.\u00a0\u00a0Austin was taken upon impact; he was gone when the police arrived.<\/p>
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Since the crash, Sheila has actively worked to make a change and raise awareness around this preventable crime.\u00a0 She has been to the capital in Wisconsin many times, speaking at public hearings and meetings with\u00a0Representatives and Senators.\u00a0 She was invited to Wisconsin Governor Evers office twice to have him sign two new drunk driving bills into law.\u00a0\u00a0 Sheila worked with Illinois Representative Tom Weber as he created HB4835 to get the term accident removed from Illinois statuses.\u00a0 These are now referred to as a crash.\u00a0 Sheila and Austin\u2019s loved ones have participated as Team Austin in the Walk like MADD fundraiser as the top fundraiser five years in a row. \u00a0She serves on the IL\/WI\/IA MADD Board of Directors, has been a part of the LER planning committee for four years and has traveled with MADD to speak at a high school before prom and graduation.\u00a0 The company Sheila works for has a global Giving Campaign and highlighted Sheila and MADD in 2023.\u00a0 That same company donated $2000 to Flight for Life in honor of Austin Lockwood.\u00a0 Sheila has had several billboards created with Austin and MADD on them to raise awareness about drinking and driving. Austin\u2019s former boss, Greg Wojtkowski, started making lanterns in honor of Austin and all victims.\u00a0 All profits from these lanterns are donated to MADD.\u00a0 They are called Austin\u2019s Lanterns. \u00a0In 2020 and 2021, Sheila became part of a War Room with MADD, this team was able to get a bipartisan provision into the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that could put an end to impaired driving.\u00a0 On November 15, 2021, the HALT Act was signed into law.\u00a0 The HALT Act requires national safety standards for passive, advanced impaired driving prevention systems on all new vehicles.\n<\/p>
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No matter how busy Sheila is, she cannot bring Austin home.\u00a0 She is committed to be the change so that no other family ever must experience this preventable loss.\u00a0 Sheila is honored and proud to be a MADD National Ambassador.\u00a0 It is her dream to one day have No More Victims.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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