. >> somehow this busy widow is trying to help passage of the aaron cohen act. he helped to draft the bill >> the state leads the country on the basis of totalities, and there's a multitude of reasons for that. some of which has to do with road designs, and some of it with a culture. >> wallner said that the current florida law gives drivers incentive to leave the scene of an accident. they want to propose a mandatory sentence for leaving the scene of a fatality accident, and also to increase sentences. >> it's not a short-term problem, getting more people into prison. but it's an educative project. when you hit someone or you kill or injure someone, you need to stay on scene. >> reporter: other states, such as new york and delaware have already passed law for cyclists. patty hopes that the aaron cohen act becomes law and fewer families will have to live with the void in their lives. >> you can try to change it t. and you can try to improve life for other people. >> the legislature will reconvene next spring, and cohen is asking people to sign petitions and chan

patty cohen things about what would happen if she runs into the man who killed her husband aaron. the driver, michele traverso lives three miles away and is already served his time. >> so angry i can barely talk about it. i feel like such an injustice was done. it's almost embarrassing the obvious lack of sense that it makes. aaron was riding his bike with a friend along this stretch of road in miami dade county when michele traverso slammed into him. he left the scene, called his attorney and turned himself in hours later. investigators found evidence he may have been drinking. driving away made it impossible for the police to test his blood alcohol level. michele traverso was sentenced to a year in gaol for leaving the scene. >> >> patty is working through her grief and doing her best to raise a 3-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter. her son barely remembers daddy. >> i really tried to look at it as a challenge, and not be a victim, but be a survivor. >> somehow the dizzy widow is finding time to push for pass ig of the aaron cohen act. law professor markus wagner helped to dra

and aaron cohen says this is just burned. what do you think of it?, i think it's been the same. i think that the mere fact that president obama's meeting with the new president of pakistan clearly shows, you know, just an ill-effort to maintain relations with the country and continue to give, you know, almost $2 billion or a billion and a half dollars to a country which literally provided no operational support, neil, to probably one of the most successful counterterror oppositions in the history of counterterror. the osama bin laden raid and imprisoned one of the biggest assets, the doctor. we're sending a bad message when we give aid to countries that just aren't aligned with our national security interest. and the aid needs to be pulled. >> won't be pulled. the hint that we're, you know, egypt does things right again, we're back in bed with them and giving them aid even though we don't know where it's going. under this administration, republican administrations, we keep giving money in the hope that countries will do our bidding or not do our doom

. >> somehow, this busy widow is finding time to push for passage of the aaron cohen act. law professor helped draft the bill. >> the state leads the count arery in the statistics on a per capita base for driver and walker deaths. >> current florida law gives drunk drivers and incentive to leave the scene of an accident. they know they'll do less time if they drive off. increased sentences for driving off to be more in line with people kill will help. >> other states, such as oregon, new york and delaware have already passed laws protecting pedestrian cyclists and other vulnerable users of the road. patty hopes that the act becomes law, fewer families will have to live with a void in their lives. >> you can't get bogged down in the anger. you can try and change it and you can try and improve life for other people. >> lawmakers there look to impose a minimum jail time of three years or more if a victim is seriously hurt or killed. >> these images from this next story are hard to forget. a compensation settlement for a former campus security officer caught on camera pepper s