FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The epidemic of drunk driving skyrocketed over the last decade by more than 50% in the State of California. Many pointing to lenient laws as the reason.

State data shows drivers with prior DUIs are involved in a majority of fatal and injury DUI crashes in California.

"My family just feels helpless. They feel lost. They feel lost in a system where they want to believe is here to do the job that they can't do," says Lucy Ochoa, lost a family member to drunk driving.

Lucy Ochoa lost her pregnant niece and her niece's boyfriend to a drunk driver.

The Fresno County judge handed down 12 years' probation to the deadly driver citing mental health and a showing of remorse. It is a sentence Ochoa says was a blow to her family.

"The laws are not in favor of the victim.

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