MIAMISBURG -- Sunday was the one year anniversary of a woman killed in a head on crash in Miamisburg. Heidi Saylor died at the intersection of State Route 725 and Linden Avenue after she was was texting while driving.
Friends and family gathered to send a message that no one should risk their lives by sending a message.
Eddie Smith dated Saylor for 12 years, Sunday night he led a candlelight vigil to mark the anniversary of her death.
Smith says Saylor was deaf and depended on her phone. Saylor died at the scene and her passenger and best friend Debbie was ejected from the vehicle.
Her former classmates from the Ohio School of Deaf walked to the scene where Saylor was killed to lay a sign and nail a cross to a tree.
Ohio passed a law this past summer that banned texting while driving in the state.
Friends and family gathered to send a message that no one should risk their lives by sending a message.
Eddie Smith dated Saylor for 12 years, Sunday night he led a candlelight vigil to mark the anniversary of her death.
Smith says Saylor was deaf and depended on her phone. Saylor died at the scene and her passenger and best friend Debbie was ejected from the vehicle.
Her former classmates from the Ohio School of Deaf walked to the scene where Saylor was killed to lay a sign and nail a cross to a tree.
Ohio passed a law this past summer that banned texting while driving in the state.
