WESTFIELD, New Jersey - A Filipino-American who died 2 days after a drunk driver hit his car was laid to rest in New Jersey on Monday.
Michael Sot, 20, was making sure his friends got home safe only to be hit head on by a drunk driver last Dec. 2.
The driver, 22-year-old David Lamar, crossed over the double center line and crashed into Sot’s car. The accident also injured 7 others.
Lamar survived and was charged with vehicular homicide, according to the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office.
"I want the other guy to know how he affected everyone and I want him to know how good of a kid he took out in the world. I have other fraternity brothers still in the hospital right now, unconscious, and I want him to see that too," said Sot’s best friend, Giancarlo Santo.
For many of Sot’s friends, he was not only a former star football player and an outstanding student, he was someone who put others first.
"He might be gone now, but like now, pieces of him live in every one of us and I think we just need to do our best job to carry out what things Mike would have done to people if he was here, because it’s the only way he could live on now,” Santo said.
More than $73,000 dollars has been raised at this time through a GoFundMe page to help the Sot family and other victims of the car crash.
Another GoFundMe page called TCNJ Car Accident Recovery Fund has raised more than $120,000. The money raised will be given to each family affected by the crash.
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