Written by The Fort Bend Star is reporting:
Elaine Brooks has gone almost four years without her daughter, and still the pain and grief are fresh in her mind.
Lisa Torry Smith was killed, and her six-year-old son severely injured, when the driver of a car struck them in a crosswalk while she was walking him to school in October 2017.
“It happens when you least expect it,” said Brooks, Smith’s mother. “That’s why a sudden death like that is so hard to get your arms around, and deal with. You don’t ever really deal with it. You continue to grieve, for years.”
Smith’s family and friends secured a measure of solace in the Texas Legislature this year. A new law, known as the Lisa Torry Smith Act, is set to go into effect Sept. 1.