PHOENIX (CBS5) -
The past week was dangerous and deadly as a number of DUI incidents across the Valley put a damper on the Fourth of July holiday.
Last Saturday, a Mohave county mom, Celestina Castillo, was busted for an extreme DUI with her three kids in the car.
On Tuesday, an SUV smashed through the Phoenix home of Wade Lee.
"I see a man who looked very disoriented and who was intoxicated," said Lee. "I screamed at him. It's pretty devastating to look at something I spent 10 years on, to be destroyed by one choice of one drunk driver."
The drunk driver took off and hasn't been seen since.
A day later on the Fourth of July, a drunk driver ran a stop sign in Phoenix, nearly running over a group of children.
That same day two men were killed in a single-car crash in Gilbert.
The car was going fast and hit a light pole.
The driver appeared to have been drunk, police said.
On Thursday, a Valley woman that was 9 months pregnant was killed off of 39th Avenue and Northern in Phoenix.
Police said a drunk driver had slammed into a bus then took off.
Moments later, the driver hit a jeep.
Karlisha Randolph, 24, and her two children were inside.
The children survived, but Randolph did not.
Ramona Maestas with Mothers Against Drunk Driving told CBS5 that DUI fatalities have dropped 51 percent in the past 30 years, but what happened this week is a clear sign that driving drunk is still a big problem that puts everyone at risk.
"What you see on TV is very important because at least it gets the message out that it's still continuing to happen, but there are so many other crashes that are happening," said Maestas. "We still have to make sure that people understand that driving impaired or driving drunk is not acceptable."
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