As most of you know, that was the day Andrew and Henrietta Miller died in a car crash on Trafalgar Road. They were pushed into the path of an oncoming GO train by a car being driven by 29-year-old Ferguson Drive resident Ingram Rahim Bakhsh.

He was driving drunk. Nearly four-times-the-legal-limit-drunk. Two weeks ago, he was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison.

In my article about the sentencing, I wasn't able to include much about the victim impact statements read in court by the Millers' family members due to the tight press deadline for the late-breaking story. It was a shame, since they were extremely powerful. In fact, the judge said they were among the most poignant he'd ever heard.

So it seems only right to devote more space to the words of one of the two brave women who took to the stand just steps away from where sat the man who killed their loved ones.

Jennifer Miller is the victims' daughter. Her seven-year-old son, Devin, their grandson.

The day of the collision, Devin was supposed to spend the day with his grandparents, but didn't due to a last minute change in plans, Jennifer told the court. It was fate, she said, that kept him safe. By the end of the day she was looking at Devin's twisted car seat, which was in the wreckage, realizing how close she came to losing her son in addition to her parents.

Courageous was the word that came to mind as Jennifer detailed the day that will forever be imprinted on her mind.

Several times she turned to look at Bakhsh and spoke directly to him from across the room, eye to eye. She didn't flinch. With a cold, clear voice, she told him he was the garbage, not her parents' belongings, which were delivered to her in a trash bag.

She spoke about having to tell loved ones the horrible news and about the difficult days that followed.

As for her son, he wrote in his statement -- which Jennifer read -- that he missed making pancakes and shopping with his nana, and working in the garage with his grandpa.

Two lives needlessly taken. Countless lives changed forever.