Family fighting to keep repeat drunken driver off the road

RANDOLPH, Mass. — The fight to keep a repeat drunken driver off the road is heating up again.

William Foley Jr.'s license was revoked in 2001 when he ran over Christine Griffiths on Route 128 in Randolph. It was his fifth drunk driving offense. Griffiths family tells Boston 25 News Foley scheduled a hearing to ask for his license back, but then called it off one day in advance.

"I was going to go and I was going to face him for the first time," said Michaela Griffiths, Christine's daughter.

It's been an intense couple of weeks for high school senior Michaela Griffiths as she prepares to address the man who killed her mother.

"I would force him to look me in the face just to see that I am a spitting image of the person he killed and you need stare at me and hear what I have to say about what you did to me," said Griffiths.

Michaela's grandmother Barbara Roche raised Michaela and remembers the first time Foley went before a state appeals board to try and get his license back in 2009.

Roche says she doesn't know why Foley decided to postpone this hearing and wonders if he was afraid to face her family again.

"If they thought we were going to go quietly into the night, he's sadly mistaken to think he would have his life back to the way it was before he killed my daughter. No, that wasn't going to happen," said Roche.

If Foley reschedules the hearing, the family says they will be ready for him, as difficult as that may be.

"I will be there," said Michaela.

Foley did not tell the board why he postponed the hearing, he isn't required to. He can reschedule, but it's up to the board to determine if they want to hear from him again.

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