Foxboro man creates non-profit for late father
By Liz Tufts
ltufts@abc6.com
A Foxboro man is on a mission to stop people from getting behind the wheel drunk. He’s launching a non-profit organization in memory of his father, who was killed in a drunk driving crash.
“A 23-year-old Norton man blew a light, t-boned my dad, killing him instantly,” Chris Munise describes in a YouTube video he made in the days following his dad’s death, hoping to show the dangers of driving drunk.
His father, 63-year-old David Munise, was killed in 2014 on Route 140 in
“I broke down, I cried, and dropped to the floor,” explained Chris. “It was either wallow in my own self-pity, or help someone in my father’s honor.”
He created the non-profit charity, “Behave for Dave.”
The goal is to educate young people before they get the chance to make a wrong, or even deadly, decision.
“They need to hear from a real person, someone effected by it,” said Chris.
“Behave for Dave” is already recognized by the state, and Chris is working for itt o be recognized by the federal government.
He’s turning to online funding to help get his message into every school in the state and he says he won’t give up until his father’s death helps save another life.
“If I have to fund this with pocket change over the next five years, that’s what I’m going to do,” says Chris.
The man police say is responsible for his father’s death, 23-year-old Nicholas Salvo, is charged with motor vehicle homicide. A trial is pending in the case.
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