Washington — Almost seven years after Rana Abbas Taylor's world was shattered in an instant by a drunken driver who killed five family members, she continues advocating for federal standards requiring lifesaving technology in all new vehicles.

Taylor lost her sister, her brother-in-law and the couple's three children on the morning of Jan. 6, 2019. The Abbas family was traveling home from a vacation in Florida when they were struck head-on by a wrong-way driver on Interstate 75 in Kentucky at 2:30 a.m. — a fatal crash that sent shockwaves through their hometown of Northville.

The crash killed Rima Abbas, 38, Issam Abbas, 42, and their children: Ali, 13, Isabelle, 12, and Giselle, 7. The driver, Joey Lee Bailey of Georgetown, Kentucky, who also died in the crash, had a blood alcohol

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