A young couple’s plans for the future were shattered in an instant after their vehicle was hit by an allegedly drunk, undocumented driver.

Cameron Lyon, 23, was traveling home with his college sweetheart and fiancée, 22-year-old Abrielle Kerns, after a family reunion on September 6 when another car crossed into their Chevrolet.

Lyon was killed in the devastating Ohio crash, while Kerns suffered serious injuries that required treatment in an intensive care unit.

Investigators said 33-year-old Alvaro Uribe-Gonzalez allegedly drove off the highway before overcorrecting. His vehicle then overturned, entered oncoming traffic and collided with the couple’s car, authorities said.

The fatal collision came at what had been an especially joyful period for the newly engaged pair. Lyon had recently begun work as a teacher, and only weeks earlier, he had proposed to Kerns during a trip to Rhode Island.

Lyon was driving when Uribe-Gonzalez’s GMC Terrain crashed into their vehicle.

Emergency crews treated him at the scene before taking him to a nearby hospital, where he later died.

“There had been reports of a reckless op, and the state highway patrol was out looking for this guy. But they didn’t catch him in time. And he slammed into my son’s car,” Lyon’s mother, Andrea Lyon, said tearfully in an interview with the Daily Mail.

‘He was an amazing person. He was funny. He could bring you out of a bad mood very quickly. He was very witty. He loved his family. He’d just gotten engaged in June to his college sweetheart.’

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) later confirmed that the suspect is in the country illegally and had previously been deported by the Trump administration. 

Local authorities apprehended Uribe-Gonzalez, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement has lodged a detainer for him. 

He has been charged with aggravated vehicular homicide, driving under the influence of alcohol and operating a motor vehicle without a valid license.

‘Cameron had his whole life ahead of him, and that life was stolen by this criminal who never should have been in our country in the first place,’ DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in a press release.

‘ICE has lodged a detainer asking officials in Ohio to cooperate with us and not release him from jail, so that we can remove him from this country. Deporting illegal aliens is our duty because it saves lives.’ 

‘Nothing is gonna bring our son back. I wanna see justice for my son and for Abrielle,’ Andrea said. ‘I don’t know what that looks like. I hope whatever it is, it’s the maximum sentence.

‘But this person is not going to consume me. I’m focused on my son, remembering him, the wonderful person he was, and taking care of Abrielle.’

She added that Kerns was moved from the Intensive Care Unit to a rehab facility earlier this week. 

Andrea said Kerns has a ‘long road ahead’ and has endured unimaginable mental trauma after the loss of her fiancé. 

Kerns’s family has started a fundraiser for her medical bills and to support her after the tragedy. 

‘Cameron was already a beloved part of the family, and everyone who knew Abrielle and Cameron could see the love they shared and the future they were building together,’ the fundraiser wrote. 

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‘Her world has been turned upside down, and the physical and emotional hardships ahead will be enormous.’ 

Kerns shared photos of the proposal in July, writing in a Facebook post: ‘On vacation, I said “yes” to the love of my life, Cameron Lyon. I still can’t believe I get to marry my best friend—the one who makes me laugh, supports my dreams, and makes every day brighter.

‘This trip became one we’ll cherish forever, and I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life making memories with you. Here’s to forever with my favorite person.’

The Crestline Exempted Village School District, where Lyon taught fifth and sixth grade, said their ‘hearts are broken’ after his death.

Andrea said Lyon loved teaching, constantly lesson planning and asking others for advice on how to make learning fun for his students. 

She added that many parents have reached out to share how much their children loved being in his classroom during his short tenure at the school. 

‘Cameron touched so many lives,’ his mother said. 

Andrea has called for stiffer drunk driving laws and hopes that others will be motivated not to get in a vehicle after consuming alcohol. 

‘Everybody needs to know drunk driving is a problem. And the punishment does not fit the crime when you take a life,’ she said. 

DHS said Uribe-Gonzalez illegally entered the US through Texas in January 2020 and was arrested by Border Patrol. 

He was issued a final order of removal on January 11 and was deported on April 14, 2020, but re-entered the US at an unknown time, according to DHS. 

The tragedy has sparked outrage on the right, with Ohio Republican Representative Jim Jordan writing on X: ‘An illegal alien was driving in Ohio and crashed into Cameron Lyon. 

‘Now, a 23-year-old teacher is dead because of a criminal who never should have been in the country.’

Ohio Republican Senator Bernie Moreno also posted about the fatal crash, writing on X: ‘My constituents are being killed because DC Dems chose feckless open border policies over Americans. Deport every single illegal alien. Now.’

Moreno wrote a scathing letter to Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont on September 1 after Ohio resident Austin Karr Grimes, 29, was killed in a car crash believed to have been caused by an undocumented man named Washington G Naula-Ochoa. 

Naula-Ochoa has pleaded not guilty to vehicular homicide after he was accused of causing the fatal crash. Local authorities said he was in the country illegally but obtained a license due to Connecticut’s ‘drive-only’ initiatives. 

Connecticut is one of many states that permits undocumented migrants to obtain a driver’s license. 

‘Horrifyingly, Connecticut not only permits illegal aliens to receive a driver’s license, but it encourages it, all while Americans pay the ultimate price,’ Moreno wrote. ‘Quite simply, your policies are killing my constituents.’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned trip to New York for this month’s UN General Assembly is likely to provide another reminder that Mayor Zohran Mamdani is more focused on attacking Israel than on the needs of New Yorkers.

Mamdani has at last conceded that he lacks the authority to direct NYPD officers to arrest Netanyahu. Yet he quickly followed that admission with an unmistakable appeal for major protests against the visiting Israeli leader — disruptions New York hardly needs amid the upheaval the annual United Nations gathering already creates.

The timing is particularly fraught. City police will have just devoted extensive resources to security for both 9/11 commemorations and Rosh Hashana, occasions when concerns over Islamist and antisemitic violence are also heightened.

Mamdani, who was seen laughing with fellow socialist AOC during Friday’s 9/11 ceremonies, has criticized Israel throughout his life, well before adopting the broader far-left agenda. He absorbed that ideology from his father and later co-founded a Students for Justice in Palestine chapter as an undergraduate at Bowdoin. 

Enforcing the International Criminal Court’s legally baseless arrest warrant for Netanyahu was a defining Mamdani campaign pledge. He reinforced that position during the opening months of his mayoralty, even publicizing efforts to explore every legal route with the NYPD to carry it out. 

President Donald Trump then humiliated Mamdani over the proposal, declaring that Netanyahu would not be arrested in any “way, shape, or form.” Mamdani was forced to acknowledge that he had no authority to deliver on his promise.

Still, he turned the admission into a campaign-style video and then pointedly declared: “One of the bedrocks of our city is protesting. It is something that’s been a part of what makes our city so special that New Yorkers can express themselves whether they are in support or in opposition no matter what.”

Nudge, nudge, wink, wink: The message appears to be that street mobs should continue his witch hunt against the world’s most famous Jew.

It fits into his broader fixation on Israel — and his hostility toward Jews unwilling to engage in self-hatred.

Take his first response to the July stabbing of Moshe Yezhak Grunhaus by a man yelling “Allahu Akbar.” After hours of silence, Mamdani posted on X without describing the attack as a hate crime. 

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Or his response as mayor-elect to November’s mini-pogrom outside the Park East Synagogue, organized nominally because of an Israeli real estate event being held there: Mamdani blamed the victims for being in “violation of international law.”

On the morning after the Hamas butcheries of Oct. 7, 2023, then-Assemblyman Mamdani drew a moral equivalence between aggressor and victim, expressing sadness for “the hundreds of people killed across Israel and Palestine in the last 36 hours.”

Two months earlier, he said at a DSA convention: “We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF.”

He, and a good chunk of his base, plainly care more about slamming Israel than serving New York City’s far more urgent needs.

The math and reading ability of Big Apple kids is in utter collapse even as the city spends ever-more on its public schools.

Revolving-door “justice” keeps recidivist felons on Gotham’s streets.

The city budget faces huge out-year gaps; the “replace Rikers” project is an ongoing farce; homeless encampments continue to fester across the city as deranged vagrants regularly wound and kill innocents in the streets and subways . . .

Those issues should consume the mayor’s attention and resources;  that the UN visit by the head of a foreign government occupies more than a microsecond of the mayor’s attention is obscene.

Worse, Mamdani’s personal obsession with Jews and Israel foments hatred and division — putting the city he leads at risk.

Please, Mr. Mayor: Let it go, at least until you find another job.

NBC has reportedly tightened security at its Manhattan “Today” show studios following an incident involving co-anchor Craig Melvin, who was confronted in a vestibule. The move also comes months after the still-unsolved kidnapping of Savannah Guthrie’s mother from her Tucson, Arizona, home, according to a recent report.

“It was much-needed and took longer than people would have liked, but it does feel a lot better now,” an unnamed insider told Page Six.

While the new procedures have created extra steps for employees, an unidentified source said “Today” staff members have accepted the inconvenience in the interest of safety.

NBC has not publicly disclosed the full scope of the enhanced security protocols.

“We are reviewing the incident and our security protocols and remain committed to providing a safe and secure environment for everyone who works at and visits our studios,” an NBC spokesperson said in July, after police arrested an intruder who entered a restricted area.

Details of the planned changes first emerged later that month through an internal memo obtained by Variety. NBC sources subsequently verified that the memo was genuine.

Among the measures cited in the memo, guests are now limited to bringing two companions, including stylists, publicists, social media staffers or other support workers.

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Nancy Guthrie, Savannah Guthrie’s 84-year-old mother, was taken from her residence in Tucson’s Catalina Foothills on Feb. 1. She has not been found, and authorities have not publicly named any suspects or announced arrests in the ongoing investigation.

While Guthrie and her colleagues were still reeling from the kidnapping, a homeless man identified as 41-year-old Andrew Truelove snuck onto the set, allegedly hunting for Al Roker.

He found Melvin instead in a vestibule inside a secure area of the studio and allegedly accosted him with a racial slur.

A review of footage from the “Today” show that morning reveals a man resembling Truelove and wearing the same clothing was pictured in the background repeatedly in the 8 a.m. hour.

Truelove has a criminal record going back decades and in 2007 was convicted of trying to abduct an 8-year-old from a school in Norfolk, Virginia.

He faces hate crime charges of burglary, a felony, and menacing, a misdemeanor, in connection with the Melvin incident.

Court records in New York show a man with the same name and age as Truelove has additional pending cases in connection with an alleged assault in the NYPD’s 5th Precinct in January, trespassing and reckless endangerment charges on the city’s transit system from May — and a 12-count criminal mischief indictment from last year.

Car manufacturers are facing accusations of racism over driver safety technology that critics say may discriminate against Asian motorists. The concerns come as the federal government moves to crack down on automakers that sell biometric data to outside parties, including insurance companies.

The issue was thrust into the spotlight after a viral video spread online showing a man of Asian descent getting a notification from the new high-tech safety system that his eyes were closed, a feature intended to detect driver drowsiness. 

However, when the camera turned from the dashboard of what appeared to be a Lexus, it showed the driver clearly awake, watching the road and travelling safely at 63mph.

The video has not been independently verified. Still, complaints about the technology date back to its introduction, with numerous users raising similar concerns on online forums.

Recently, Congress required safety systems, including infrared cameras, to be introduced in all new US vehicles in an effort to reduce distracted and impaired driving.

Beyond detecting possible drowsiness, some manufacturers’ driver-monitoring systems record how sharply motorists brake, how quickly they accelerate, how they take turns and other driving behavior.

Asian drivers have reported comparable problems with eye-openness detection in other systems, including Chinese-made XPeng vehicles. In 2022, CarScoops reported that drivers experienced issues similar to those alleged by the Lexus motorist.

One Weibo blogger, known online as @DerekTLM, said his vehicle repeatedly identified him as distracted and deducted his “smart driving points.” Drivers begin each year with 100 points and lose them for poor driving behavior.

“I really just have small eyes, not fallen asleep while driving!” he said.

While Americans don’t have to contend with China’s overt social credit scores, the data has been used to generate driver safety profiles that insurance companies have relied on to justify increases to the cost of premiums. 

Modern car monitoring systems alert drivers when they’re violating speed limits, but the new infrared dashboard cameras constantly monitor eye openness, reportedly based on a predetermined width, along with facial positioning, to alert a driver who may be falling asleep behind the wheel. 

And the glitchy systems may become more commonplace, as the HALT Drunk Driving Act passed in 2021. 

It requires all new vehicles to meet a certain standard for drunk and impaired driving prevention. Auto companies would be required to have technology that ‘passively’ detects impaired driving and prevent the vehicle from operating. 

Infrared cameras could be one way to enforce it, among other things. 

However, the implementation is being administered by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which said this year that it has still yet to create the standard for the technology or a deadline for its rollout. 

The organization has also told Congress there is not currently a commercially available driving alcohol impairment detection system that meets the law’s requirements.

It is unclear when the full slate of safety features will be required in all new US cars, especially as drivers are quickly finding bugs in the systems for the distracted driving monitoring that are already on the market. 

On a Lexus forum, many drivers complained that the feature constantly gave alerts, especially when wearing sunglasses. 

Lexus smart vehicles automatically collect data on its users, even if they’re unaware. Some information it collects is driving data, such as speeding; vehicle health, and voice recordings, if one has their phone linked to their cars, its website read.  

Users can opt out of the program, however, it will affect their ability to use other online connected features. 

‘Declining the Vehicle Connectivity Consent will turn off all data transmission on your vehicle, and you will no longer have access to Connected Services, even if these services were included as part of your vehicle purchase,’ its website read. 

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However, unlike other car manufacturers, Lexus says it does not send a driver’s data to third parties, like LexisNexis, which helps car insurance companies figure out rates, without user consent. 

‘Unless we obtain your consent, we will not provide your Driving Data to other parties for their own purposes,’ Lexus’ website reads. 

In 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) found that General Motors (GM) did not adequately inform their customers that their data was being shared with third parties, like LexisNexis. The company was banned from sharing data with brokers for five years, The New York Times reported. 

‘GM monitored and sold people’s precise geolocation data and driver behavior information, sometimes as often as every three seconds,’ Lina Khan, the former FTC chair, said. 

‘With this action, the FTC is safeguarding Americans’ privacy and protecting people from unchecked surveillance.’ 

The FTC found that many drivers who enrolled were not clearly informed about the programs and were oftentimes signed up at dealerships.

The data was collected by GM drivers using OnStar Connected Services, with several customers telling The Times their insurance skyrocketed or they were denied after starting the service. 

Kenn Dahl, of New York, saw his insurance go up by 21 percent in 2022. When he asked why, one insurance agent told him to pull his LexisNexis report, he told The Times.

The 258-page document stunned him. It had 130 pages alone just describing where he and his wife drove their Chevrolet Bolt over the course of 640 trips. 

It reported every time either of them had braked hard and how far they drove, among other data points, he told The Times. 

It also showed eight insurance companies had requested information from the company while he was shopping around for new insurance. 

‘It felt like a betrayal,’ he told The Times. ‘They’re taking information that I didn’t realize was going to be shared and screwing with our insurance.’ 

A Cadillac driver, who was not identified, had to obtain insurance through a private broker after he was denied by seven companies, The Times reported. 

Like Dahl, he was also advised to pull his LexisNexis report. Six months of his driving had been recorded on his car, showing many instances of hard braking and accelerating. 

The Cadillac driver had also enrolled in OnStar, The Times reported. 

The FTC said enrolling in the program was too confusing for consumers. Under the settlement agreement, GM had to make it easier for drivers to turn off tracking and to be able to delete their data. 

GM said it ended the program due to ‘customer feedback,’ The Times reported. 

GM stopped sharing data with LexisNexis after a 2024 investigation by The Times. 

Mozilla, which makes the Firefox browser, analyzed 25 car brands in 2023 and found that none of them meet the privacy and security standards Mozilla uses for its own brand. 

It found car companies were collecting data on weight, race, age and health. 

Nineteen of the 25 companies also said they would sell consumer data, but not to whom it would go to. It is unclear if customers were well aware that the companies were collecting and selling data. 

The Daily Mail has reached out to Lexus, GM, and LexisNexis for comment.