‘I’m here’: Mother whose 3 children were killed by drunk driver reflects 10 years later
Global News
'I've learned to carry my grief in a way that it's masked better,' Jennifer Neville-Lake said, adding, 'I don't hesitate, I don't have those pauses where I'm lost in the memories.'
On Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025, it will be 10 years since Jennifer Neville-Lake’s three children and father were killed by a drunk driver.
Her husband died by suicide seven years after that crash.
Then last year, in June 2024, her eastern Ontario home burned down with the urns holding her children’s ashes inside.
“I’m here. Because that’s the reality … I am physically here. I am mentally, partially here, which is why I have assistance for many things. Emotionally, I’m all over the map. But I am physically here,” Neville-Lake told Global News.
In 2015, her three young children were killed in a crash in Vaughan, Ont., caused by driver Marco Muzzo, whose blood-alcohol content was nearly three times the legal limit in Ontario.
Muzzo had been driving home from Toronto Pearson International Airport after arriving from Miami, where he was celebrating his bachelor party.
He was speeding and ran a stop sign before his SUV T-boned the Neville-Lakes’ minivan at Kipling Avenue and Kirby Road.
Nine-year-old Daniel Neville-Lake, his five-year-old brother Harrison, their two-year-old sister Milly and the children’s 65-year-old grandfather, Gary Neville, were killed in the collision.
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