The parents of one of the Wakefield High School students killed in a car crash last year successfully lobbied a legislative committee today to approve a bill to revoke the driver's license of anyone who helps minors obtain alcohol.

Kathleen and Steven George of Raleigh told a House committee about their son, Steven George, 18, who died March 4, 2006. George was a passenger in a Mazda RX-8 driven by his classmate, Baker Wood, on the way home from a basketball game in Greenville.

"We get to go visit and talk to our son in the cemetery," Kathleen George told lawmakers.

Investigators say Wood was driving his father's car at 100 mph when the car hit a concrete barrier on the U.S. 64-264 ramp onto the Beltline. The car skidded along the 3-foot-high wall for more than 400 feet before jumping the barrier and crashing to the ground nearly 60 feet below.

Wood, George, Anthony Bostic, 17, and Timothy Steinberg, 18, were killed. Wood had a blood-alcohol level of .21 and George's blood-alcohol level was .14.

Her husband, Steven George, said it was unclear how the teenagers got the alcohol.

During discussions among lawmakers, it became clear that a parent would not see their license revoked if the minors take the alcohol without their knowledge. However, Rep. Rick Glazier, a Fayetteville Democrat, said parents could lose their licenses if they knew minors had previously gotten alcohol in their home and did nothing to prevent it from happening again.

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