Siblings Against DUI

10/22/2026

I just so happened to be on my personal fb when this message popped up for this page...i access fb on my macbook so i took this picture off of my phone. anyways this was quite a weird message to receive haha. the post he replied to was the one for the announcement of us temporarily removing Miranda's memorial for construction. not sure who this fella is but i hope he heals from whatever is bothering him. he immediately blocked me i guess after sending the message but i genuinely hope he's okay. i am not sure what triggered him from the post about the memorial but it made me concerned for him. spread love, not hate. people like this need support and i truly hope they find it. take care🫶🏼

10/21/2026

i am beyond grateful for all the love and support we've received recently regarding Miranda's memorial. I often times forget that there are still people who don't know her story because i am so wrapped up in my own grief. this is yet another reminder of our mission to spread Miranda's story because there are people who don't know, and we can't make change if people aren't aware of her story! we cannot bring Miranda back but maybe through our loss we can help spread the word to not drink and drive!! we can make change and do what we can to prevent this tragedy happening to other families! driving while drunk is NOT cool! it takes lives and more times than not INNOCENT lives who just wanted to make it home. Miranda didn't drink that night and get behind the wheel, but she paid the ultimate price for it.

if you are struggling with alcoholism there is tons of support out there! i want to include a link for local AA meetings in LV and surrounding areas: https://sober.com/aa-meeting/leavenworth-group-1/

preventing drunk driving means acknowledging that people struggle with drinking in general. you are NOT alone. reach out, connect, your life is worth living even if its hard to see the bigger picture. your sober life could mean saving someone else's life. please reach out if you're struggling. if i can convince just ONE person to live a sober life and not drink and drive anymore i truly believe it will be the healing i need through my grief. thank you.

10/20/2026

with some of the new attention the page is getting i wanted to use the opportunity to share Miranda's story again for those who may not know. This is my sister Miranda Lynch. she is the one who made me an older sister. She was the 3rd child of 4 daughters born to the Lynch Family. Miranda was a bright, funny, active, 16 year old girl before her life was stolen from her. she passed away on August 7th, 2021 from blunt force trauma. she had been riding her bike up 4th street after spending time at a friends house a couple blocks from her girlfriends house where she had been staying enjoying the last of her summer break before her junior year of high school. a little before 2 am Miranda grew tired from riding her bike as it was very late and according to her girlfriend she wanted to go back home and sleep. she got off her bike and began walking when a vehicle going 60 mph in a 20 mph zone struck her from behind. the impact was so intense it caused Miranda to fly up onto the hood of the vehicle as she clutched the handlebars of her bicycle and carried the bike up onto the hood with her. her body was carried for 60 feet before the driver of that vehicle swerved to get Miranda and her bike off of the vehicle. Miranda landed in the street by 4th and Kickapoo. the damage was instant. Miranda's girlfriend took off running to catch up to where Miranda's body had landed. she wasn't responsive. she was taken to KU Medical Center where she was later pronounced brain dead and taken off of life support because she had zero brain activity. the driver of the vehicle that hit Miranda was highly intoxicated. the woman was identified and arrested the next day. she was sentenced to 9 years for second degree murder. the woman who killed Miranda had previous DUI's and a suspended license. we share Miranda's story because she deserved more from life. she would have turned 21 earlier this year. if this woman who took her life had taken the offer from her friends that night for a ride home Miranda would still be here. we hope to share the harms of drinking and driving to potentially save someone else's family from the heartache we deal with everyday. Miranda has missed so much in the 5 years she has been gone. her niece that she was anticipating was born, her oldest sister got married, her baby sister gave her a nephew she'll never meet, her oldest sister gave her a second niece that she'll never meet, and me her other older sister she is missing my wedding. this is just the beginning of many things Miranda is missing because of someone else's actions. so please be smart, be safe, drive sober.

10/19/2026

here is your update, please share!!
Today my mother and father went to the memorial on 4th and Kickapoo and removed all of the items at Miranda Lynch's memorial while construction takes place. We were told they're replacing the sidewalk and didn't want to damage any of the items there so that is why they've been removed by my family. Once construction is finished everything will be returned. If you have any items that you were planning on leaving there please hold onto them until we are able to return her usual items including the Ghost Bike. We are constantly so appreciative of the community and all the awareness you constantly spread sharing my sisters story! We love that her memorial has become a place to grieve, a reminder of what drinking and driving does, and a way to keep Miranda's name being spoke among people. As some may know none of my family resides in Leavenworth anymore so we really appreciate all the people who reach out about her memorial so we can still try to maintain it. Not to mention the countless amount of people who still leave her things, stop to visit, and those who help to keep it cleaned up since we are no longer down the street to do it ourselves. So from the Lynch Family: Thank you!!🫶🏼

10/19/2026

thank you to everyone who has been reaching out about Miranda's memorial with the construction that is taking place on 4th street. we are actively working on a solution and will most likely be temporarily removing some items to keep them safe until the construction work is finished. i will keep the community updated as soon as i receive more information from my mother!!🫶🏼

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10/15/2026

grief for me right now is planning what is supposed to be the happiest day of my life and asking my older sister, "do you have a framed picture of Miranda I can use so its like she's there too?". what i want to do in all reality is be able to reach out and ask miranda, "hey my wedding is on this day at this time at this location, can you come?" but i don't get that luxury anymore. none of us in my family do. we don't get to call or message and talk to her. we don't get to invite her to family events. we don't get to see where she would be in life. instead we wince at scenes in movies where someone is hit by a car, we get to sick to our stomachs at the mere scent of alcohol, we panic when we see someone riding a bike, and for me at least deal with a panic attack when i see the speedometer in the car reach 60 mph because all i can think is, "this is how fast the car was going when it hit my sisters body." our life was turned upside down by someone we didn't even know existed. and the sickest part to me? the world kept going. the sun rose that day and set in the evening. people drove to work, picked up groceries, watched their favorite tv show with their family that night. my family sat by the stop sign on 4th and Kickapoo street just so we could try and feel closer to her knowing her body was sitting in a freezer. we went home, fell asleep and woke up the next morning realizing it was real, and not a horrible dream. at 18 years old i crawled into my parents bed when i woke up that morning so stricken with grief my mind reverted back to a young child who was scared from a nightmare i had. but it wasn't a nightmare, it was real life. and now i sit here at 23 years old feeling completely numb to the world, to excitement, to joy. stuck in survival mode until my last breath. this is what grief does to people. this is what unimaginable pain does to people. it sucks the essence of their soul right out of their body leaving an empty shell to continue. i miss my sister, and how cruel to realize she would still be here if someone had decided to get a sober ride home that night. stop drinking and driving.

10/10/2026

i don't really know what to say anymore so i guess just stick with me as i try to express my feelings here. its been over 5 years now since i said goodbye to my sister. at times i feel like im doing good only to realize im not. ive never been able to grieve miranda in a way that felt right. i found myself blocking her out of my thoughts just so i could get through the day. talking about her feels impossible sometimes. but i WANT to talk about her. i just get so exhausted afterwards. there are stories about her that i tell often and those are easy, i just feel an undertone of sadness afterwards. but the stories i don't talk about, the minute i do my eyes begin to swell and my chest feels like its collapsing. ive tried so hard to manage my grief on my own that ive entered a weird phase of "was she even real? did i make her existence up?" which i know is completely irrational but who i am to question my own grief. you know ive lost so many people in my young life. at each of their funerals feeling like something was wrong with me because i couldn't cry. it wasn't until mirandas funeral that i finally understood why. my body was saving itself for this grief. grief that would shatter my world. like the universe knew before i was even born that THIS would be my greatest hurt and it saved it all for her. i don't know i just feel lost. my sisters and i use to be so close growing up and now they feel like strangers because none of us are the same. i look into my mothers eyes and don't recognize the woman who raised me because that's not her. i don't recognize myself anymore either and i find myself always searching for the version of me that didn't feel this pain. the one who thought "im gonna live forever because im so young." now here i am at 23 with this constant feeling that im running out of time, and it all started when i was 18 and lost my 16 year old sister all because we really felt like death couldn't touch us. i just don't know anymore and i want to scream and burn the whole world down for moving on because i don't think i can and i don't think i ever will. im just tired of it.

09/18/2026

i’m finding myself struggling a bit more than usual these days. i have a feeling it has to do with spooky season coming soon. some of my favorite memories with miranda took place around this time back in 2020. where i really felt like her and i were bonding the most with each other. my favorite time of year mixed with so much sadness. it was the first holiday we had to celebrate without her and again my family’s favorite holiday. scary movies everyday, candy on the table, surrounded by all the halloween decorations. we’ve always been the “weird” family who was overly obsessed with halloween and scary stuff but we had each other in our weirdness. i don’t know im just rambling. i guess i just wanted to say im struggling a lot here recently and im really tired of accepting that i have to carry this pain with me for the rest of my life. it’s very exhausting.

09/18/2026

i was talking to my niece today.

the one who made me an aunt. the one who we were all so excited to meet. one of our last pictures of the 4 Lynch sisters was this photo at stephanie’s gender reveal where we learned we were going to have another little girl joining the family. she’s in this photo, inside steph’s belly, next to the aunt she would never get to meet outside of her mommy’s belly. this is one of the few photos adelynn will get to look at in the future where she is technically with her aunt miranda. her mimi.

today i was talking to my niece and she told me “aunt haley, i miss mimi.” a sentence she has said to me a couple times before and each time it hurts like the first time. because i look at her little face and cannot grasp how this little human never got to meet the aunt that was just as excited as me for her. that’s when her mommy, mine and miranda’s older sister said something to her that i found so beautiful. she said to her “remember what i told you? you miss people because you love them.” i cannot begin to imagine the pain my sister has raising her daughter after losing her little sister. being rushed to the hospital the day we lost miranda because she stopped feeling adelynn moving inside of her. not only the pain of just losing her sister but the possibility that she had just lost her baby too. miranda made sure that didn’t happen and now adelynn is a healthy, smart, beautiful almost 5 year old.

so anyways i was talking to my niece today, and i wish miranda was here to talk to her too.