His face, disfigured after a car accident, had become the symbol of the risks of driving while intoxicated. She died at the age of 40 Jacqui Saburido: in 1999 when she was 20 she was involved in a car accident in which she had suffered burns on 60% of the body. Jacqui, who grew up in Caracas, Venezuela, died in Guatemala, was suffering from cancer. His name and face had become famous the world over: twenty years ago he was returning from a birthday party in Austin, Texas with four other friends when a car, traveling in the opposite lane, had collided with their. Two of his friends had died instantly, the car had caught fire and she, who was sitting in front, had suffered burns on 60% of her body. The driving boy, an 18-year-old, was drunk: he was sentenced to seven years in prison and released in 2008. Jacqui Saburido had undergone more than 100 operations to rebuild part of the face and hands. At the time of the crash he had been in the US for less than a month and had no medical insurance. The operations she underwent had cost over $ 5 million.
Jacqueline, this is her full name, had become the face of the Texas Department of Transportation's "Faces of Drunk Driving" campaign. She went to schools to tell her story, she had also been on television. "Even if it means putting yourself in front of a camera without a nose, without hair, without ears, I will do it hundreds of times if this can help someone else make the right decision," he always repeated. "It's part of my mission on Earth, if this is this body can help others, why not?
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