BOISE - Drunk driving deaths increased 45 percent in Idaho from 2014 to 2016, according to data collected by the FBI.
For one Nampa woman, that statistic hits particularly close to home.
"So my accident was July 25, 2013," Heather Orchard said. "I was hit in a head-on collision by a drunk driver."
Orchard says she remembers every single detail of the collision near Barber Park in Boise, like it happened yesterday. She was driving home from a friend's house at 9:30 at night. A car driven by a 21-year-old man came around the corner at 80 miles an hour.
"Right after the initial hit I was just in shock," Orchard said. "I blacked out for a second and then had woken up. I looked out my window and the other car was completely in flames."
Still in shock, Orchard ran over to the car that had hit her.
"There was a man sitting inside," she said. "He was completely (unconscious) on the front steering wheel.
"I was just so scared because the car was on fire," she said.
Orchard suffered a broken arm, a broken leg and burns from helping the other driver get safely out of his car. The impact also severely injured her spine. She still struggles with the pain today, but she is alive.
"Two of the police officers had come into my room when I was in the hospital and they were like, 'You have no idea, you are so lucky to be alive,'" she said.
Along with back pain, there is another looming effect from the 2013 collision, a question Orchard often asks herself.
"Sometimes you just wonder why some people are saved and others are not," she said. "I think I'm here for a purpose and it's definitely to be apart of MADD."
MADD stands for Mothers Against Drunk Driving, a national organization started by one mom in 1980.
The organization says 77 people died in drunk driving accidents in Idaho in 2016, representing 30 percent of all traffic deaths.
Orchard says the 21-year-old man who hit her head-on had a history of driving drunk.
"This wasn't his first offense for a DUI," she said. "He was driving without a drivers license."
MADD believes suspending licenses for first-time drunk driving offenders are not enough to protect the public. That's why the group is pushing Idaho legislators to pass a law requiring the use of ignition interlocks for one year for all first-time convicted drunk drivers with an illegal blood alcohol concentration of .08 or greater.
An ignition interlock is a device that prevents a vehicle from starting if the driver has been drinking alcohol.
The devices are already required in Idaho for repeat drunk driving offenders. MADD says over the past 11 years, ignition interlocks have prevented 6,229 attempts to drive drunk in Idaho.
"Those interlocks have been proven to save lives by 67 percent," Orchard said.
For Orchard, it is now her life's mission to talk about her accident and to raise awareness about the effects of drunk driving, in hopes of eliminating it from Idaho's roads.
"It was just an experience you never want to be apart of," she said.