Jodie Webb was on her way home from celebrating her 21st birthday when the teenage driver of the car she was travelling in lost control and crashed, killing her and her friend Joanne Greenwood.
The human cost of road accidents was spelled out at the launch of safety campaigns.
Daniel's father Steve and Jodie's mother June today joined other bereaved parents in Manchester and London in a bid to cut the grim death toll on the region's roads.
In the past three years 838 people have been killed or seriously injured on Manchester's roads and last year 46 children died on north west highways.
Jodie and Joanne, both from Beswick, died in August 2000 after accepting a lift home from a party in Wigan. The 18-year-old driver was travelling at 70mph in a 30mph zone when he crashed, killing the two friends. He was jailed for five years.
June Webb today joined road safety campaigners, emergency service personnel and stars from Manchester City in Albert Square, Manchester, to launch a 15-week safety campaign.
It will involve more speed cameras and cameras on traffic lights and more 20mph zones.
June now campaigns for charity RoadPeace, which calls for tougher sentences for those who kill or maim on the roads.
She said: "I don't plan anything any more. I just get up in the morning and take each day as it comes. I don't live, I just exist."
Daniel Foulkes's father Steve, from Ellesmere Port, helped launch a national campaign for road safety charity Brake.
Brake and parcel delivery company FedEx are setting up an academy to recruit volunteers in schools, the health service and in workplaces to teach road safety messages.
Steve, 43, said: "The person who killed Daniel was doing 80mph in a 40mph zone. Some people say if you are just over the speed limit it's okay. But if you are speeding, you are speeding.
"I know every parent thinks their child is special, but Daniel was special. He had his whole future ahead of him and some idiot took it away.
"People have got to realise that a car is a lethal weapon in the wrong hands."
Should sentences be tougher for speeding offences?
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Priorities are all wrong here I'm afraid. 2m speeding tickets to be issued this year and roads deaths still going up. Let's differentiate between those doing a couple of miles over the limit and those driving at over twice the limit - as in these tragic cases - effectively racing. Too many drivrers diving without MOT and/or insurance - ridiculously short sentenced for those causing deaths (Lee Hughes out in 2 years it appears) and B#120m in road fines failing to be re-invested in real road safety are the facts. Don't expect any reductions in fatalities with this policy I'm afraid - just more motorists being collared for minor offences and those who are the real danger getting away far too lightly. It's all about priorities and they're all wrong here.
Sentences for speeding should certainly be much tougher and include a driving ban ranging from 12 months to life depending on the excess speed. Sentences for using mobile phones should also be much tougher including driving bans. Today I witnessed a private hire car driver using a mobile phone as he did a right turn from a side street onto the A6 in Hazel Grove. He should have his private hire licence removed permanently. It is unbelievable that such idiots are allowed to transport members of the public.