The last five words Traci Haupert of Peru, Indiana would ever say to her daughter Taylour Sparks were, “Be safe. I love you.” On that clear spring morning of May 5, 2018, Sparks, who was just 25 years old, was a passenger on her boyfriend’s motorcycle as the two went rolling along on US Route 24, bound for a fundraiser in northern Indiana. Haupert said they would have completed the 200-mile journey had it not been for the motorcycle’s bald rear tire that blew out at 9:30 a.m. The accident sent Taylour careening onto the cold pavement of the four-lane highway to her death. Her boyfriend survived the crash. “Shoulda, coulda, woulda” is a common self-reproach when you lose a child in a traffic accident, Haupert says. The pain and confusion are unbearable. The regret over what might have been, or done differently, is never-ending, she added. “She didn’t even …
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December 23, 2021
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