MIAMI -- The sorority sisters of a 19-year-old girl in a coma after a crash involving an alleged drunk driver on Florida's Turnpike are now raising money and awareness against drunk driving.

Molly Orahood, now 19, was 7 years old when she was in an airplane crash with her parents. She awoke from a coma to find she was orphaned.

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The Florida International University pre-med student is struggling for her life again after a crash in Boca Raton. Friends said Orahood hit a parked car driven by a drunk driver on the side of the Turnpike, and then her car was hit by a semi-truck, NBC 6's Amara Sohn reported.

Orahood has been comatose since the crash in May.

"I felt like she needed us. She didn't have anybody. She has some family in Florida, but they couldn't come," friend Krystal Bujeiro said.

For Bujeiro, being a fellow sorority sister in the Delta Phi Epsilon sorority took on a new meaning this summer. She said Orahood was adopted by her half-brother in Indiana, but it was Bujeiro who spent her summer by Orahood's hospital bedside in Delray Beach.

"I took face wipes, lotion, just went and talked to her, made her feel pretty," Bujeiro said.

To compound the situation, Orahood has no health insurance. Her medical bills have amounted to more than $500,000.

"They’re basically wiping out everything that was under Molly's name," Bujeiro said.

In response, the Delta Phi Epsilon sisters joined with their fraternity brothers to start the Keep Sober fund. They are busy planning their first big event, "A Night For Molly," to raise money and awareness.

"I want people to know Molly's story. I want people to know what their actions can do," Bujeiro said.

Orahood opened her eyes a couple of months ago, and she is "tracking well," which means that she is able to follow nurses' fingers with her eyes, Sohn reported.

"A Night For Molly" is scheduled for Oct. 13 at the FIU campus in Miami-Dade County at 11200 Southwest Eighth St. Checks made payable to the Keep Sober fund can be mailed to:

C/O Molly Orahood
6700 SW 70th Avenue
Miami, FL 33143