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Living the dream
Youngest son was in an accident, meet him at the emergency room.
So, after a fun day at the beach with friends, he and 2 buddies were on the way home, taking the back roads through the hills, lost control at 50+ and hit 2 redwoods. Mike was in the back behind the driver. Front airbags deployed, but he was knocked out. His buddies drug him from the car before it caught fire and burned.
This is a remote area in the coastal hills, large properties in the redwoods with little traffic and no cell service. The first car they flagged down was a lone teenage girl, who apologized that she couldn't stop to help 3 20 y/o boys on a dark road, then drove off. A while later a lady stopped, and took Mike and one friend down into Santa Cruz to the hospital. The driver (moms new car) stayed with the car, got someone to call CDF to put out the fire, etc...
Long story short, he's home and resting. Concussion from the 50+>0 deceleration/impact, very sore from seat belt abrasions, etc. Initially he thought he broke his collarbone and re injured a fractured vertebra for an injury a few years ago, but the xrays were negative.
As bad as this would be in normal circumstances, it was initially worse for my wife and I (she received a call from his cell from a kid we didn't know, telling her Mike was in an accident, hit tree, etc...
Flash back to July 4, 1998 when a close family friend was in a car with his friends, driver was drunk, hit a tree at 80, the 3 boys in the back seat died in the resulting fire. Mike's middle name was in honor of that friend...
Too many parallels to process at once.
Anyway, all 3 are ok, Mike took the worst of it, but all things considered, they were extremely lucky. The redwoods kept them from going off a steep embankment into a ravine, which would have been so much worse.
So, after a fun day at the beach with friends, he and 2 buddies were on the way home, taking the back roads through the hills, lost control at 50+ and hit 2 redwoods. Mike was in the back behind the driver. Front airbags deployed, but he was knocked out. His buddies drug him from the car before it caught fire and burned.
This is a remote area in the coastal hills, large properties in the redwoods with little traffic and no cell service. The first car they flagged down was a lone teenage girl, who apologized that she couldn't stop to help 3 20 y/o boys on a dark road, then drove off. A while later a lady stopped, and took Mike and one friend down into Santa Cruz to the hospital. The driver (moms new car) stayed with the car, got someone to call CDF to put out the fire, etc...
Long story short, he's home and resting. Concussion from the 50+>0 deceleration/impact, very sore from seat belt abrasions, etc. Initially he thought he broke his collarbone and re injured a fractured vertebra for an injury a few years ago, but the xrays were negative.
As bad as this would be in normal circumstances, it was initially worse for my wife and I (she received a call from his cell from a kid we didn't know, telling her Mike was in an accident, hit tree, etc...
Flash back to July 4, 1998 when a close family friend was in a car with his friends, driver was drunk, hit a tree at 80, the 3 boys in the back seat died in the resulting fire. Mike's middle name was in honor of that friend...
Too many parallels to process at once.
Anyway, all 3 are ok, Mike took the worst of it, but all things considered, they were extremely lucky. The redwoods kept them from going off a steep embankment into a ravine, which would have been so much worse.
