After a drunk driver slammed into their golf cart during their wedding reception,Samantha Miller is preparing her husband’s Aric Hutchinson burial while she recovers.
The ‘unimaginable’ burden of arranging for her husbands burial now lies in front of the bride whose husband was killed by a drunk motorist as they left their wedding reception.
When Jamie Lee Komoroski allegedly sped down a beach road and struck the golf cart carrying him and his new wife Samantha Miller, who was killed, Aric Hutchinson sustained serious injuries. The golf cart, which also had two injured family members on board, was launched roughly 100 yards.
Hutchinson suffered two broken legs and broken bones in his face, both which were surgically repaired, as well as broken vertebrae’s in his back, brain bleeds and several cuts.
‘She is physically recovering at home while trying to come to terms with the loss of her beautiful husband,’ wrote her mother Annette Hutchinson in an update Monday on her GoFundMe page.
‘Now she is doing the unimaginable of planning Sam’s funeral along with her family.’
April 28 ‘started as the happiest day for Aric and Sam ended with a tragedy’, according to Annette.
Komoroski, 25, is accused of driving 65mph on a back road in Folly Beach, South Carolina, while the speed limit on the island is 25mph. Komoroski admitted to cops that she consumed a beer and a tequila drink before going behind the wheel, but refused to cooperate with a field sobriety test. She was not injured in the crash.
She has been charged with reckless homicide as well as three counts of driving under the influence.
‘While our hearts are broken along with the Millers, we never could have imagined how sharing our story would result in the tremendous outpouring of love, support, and overwhelming generosity we have received from friends, family, co-workers, and strangers,’ wrote Annette.
The GoFundMe, which began with a $100,000 goal for medical bills and Miller’s burial, had raised more than $706,000 as of Wednesday afternoon.
‘We are missing Sam more than anything, she instantly fit into our family from the first day Aric and Sam met,’ Annette wrote. ‘She was everything to my son and changed him for the better.’