Monday, January 31, 2011

Remember Alex Brown: Emma Roberts and Justin Bieber join 'Extreme Makeover Home Edition' in support of safe driving

Starlet Emma Roberts abandoned the glam gala and connected Justin Bieber and NASCAR star Carl Edwards and Greg Biffle to seem on "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" ABC Sun in accolade of the Foundation Remember Alex Brown, a nonprofit held after 17 years Alexandra Brown rode his truck and died on the way to school. She was texting when repelling.
After being informed that her daughter had not been to school, Alex's mother Jeannie has resulted to the look for the wreckage of the truck. "Even if no other vehicles were involved, Alex was not alone," she wrote on the official website of the Foundation. "The mobile phone on which she had sent and received over 10,000 text messages in the weeks preceding his accident was with her.”
The volunteers arrived at the house Brown Lubbock, TX to rebuild their house - now resided by 3 additional family members, Jane, Johnny Mac and his sister aged twelve, Alex Katrina annual afterward the death of Alex Brown.
"If Alex was here and see what she would be so happy for us," said Katrina. "It would be like, 'I'm so glad y'all get this y’all! Doing well. Continue. "
The Browns decided to start the memory of Alex Brown Foundation day of his death. "I chose to do that day in hospital," his father said. "We need the [wreck] on a trailer truck and we go to school and tell people about the dangers of texting while driving."
"Extreme Makeover" Roberts asked to join for two reasons. "She is an amazing young actress," said Ty Pennington, "and she is a teenager, so she understands the magnitude of an epidemic of texting while driving is."
"After hearing the story of Alex Brown, I just think that texting and driving is really a problem," said Roberts. "To hear that this happened to someone so young -. That really was a sort of a bit of a wake-up call, my sister nine years and think she would lose, or lose me - I can 't even understand that. "