Family Mourns Fatal DUI Crash Victim

Family members mourned a woman that was killed in a DUI-related crash.

Angel Rivers, 21, and three friends were driving on Interstate 20 in Atlanta, when they were rear-ended by the driver of a BMW M6, police said.

The four-car collision happened near the Martin Luther King Junior exit around 3 a.m. on Saturday.

A soldier rescued Rivers’ three friends from the fiery explosion, but police said Rivers died after she was ejected from the vehicle. The three survivors are being treated for serious injuries, according to family members.

When police arrived at the crash scene, BMW driver Donis Alexander Hodges was arrested on charges of DUI, first-degree homicide, following too closely and reckless driving.

Little said she only found the crash was DUI-related while watching Channel 2 Action News coverage of the crash at midnight.

Eric Gonzales, WSB-TV Rivers family Angel Rivers' family mourns her death.

“I just want him prosecuted to the fullest,” Little told Channel 2’s Pam Martin.

She and her family mourned their loss at Little’s home in southwest Atlanta. She is now taking care of Rivers’ 3-year-old son, whom she said keeps asking for his mother.

“She was just special to everybody and precious to me,” Little said.

A fund has been established for the 3-year-old at SunTrust under the name Angel Rivers.