Greetings!
Where the heck are the summer bucket posts right?
Well unfortunately I wasn't able to accomplish my bucket list goals but I had every intention of doing so. I had trips planned and weekends set aside for geocaching and rving and my camera was ready to capture it all!!!! We have only had a few summer adventures this year (my next post I will share those with you) but nothing like we planned because we had an unfortunate family tragedy. And that is what I am here to share with you today.
My purpose of sharing this with you is to make everyone more aware that our actions affect people. People you may not even know. Its important for people to feel compassion for one another even complete strangers because our tragedy could have been completely and fully been prevented. Because of one persons actions our family has lost not one but two very cherished people.
On July 21st 2015 a mini van holding four people returning from the library and truck carrying for teenagers met on a busy highway at 8:08 PM. The mini van was making a legal left hand turn and in the processes the pick up truck holding the four teenagers that were so severely incapacitated by drugs that the unlicensed drivers depth perception between the intersection and the red light was mistaken. So severely mistaken that the mini van had almost completed its left turn. The sound of the crushing metal from the two vehicles was so intense that all other traffic stopped. On impact the pick up trucks' rear end rose into the air while the front end of the truck was embedded in the mini vans front driver side door, even if only for a few moments. But the damage was done because Charles, the driver, was so intertwined in the metal of the door that police later had to cut him out of the vehicle. The mini van skidded across the intersection with such force that when it slammed into the signal post the passenger, 10 year old Cassies' small head (so full of beautiful brown hair) slammed into the glass window. Moments later the signal light crashed down onto the passenger side of the mini van. Hitting Cassie with so much force that an ambulance could not get her to the hospital fast enough. Both Charles and his daughter would have to be flown by helicopter to get the medical attention they would need. Charles never made it to the hospital. He died next his daughter in the helicopter. For the next week Cassie would have multiple surgeries to try to control the swelling of her brain. A week later she would suffer multiple strokes and was declared brain dead.
Two other passengers in the mini van survived. Charles' older daughter and her closest friend. All the passengers in the pick up truck suffered minor injuries.
This is what is left of the mini van:
There isnt any words a person can say when someones careless actions take the life of a person. Time and again the people that we lose are good loving open-hearted individuals.
My heart goes out to all those that have lost someone they have loved and cherished in their life.
You are not alone in the grief and the loss for words.
More importantly though, are the cause and effect of peoples actions on innocent parties.
Please remember this the next time you drive. Your life is important. My life is important, and so are the other drivers around you. All of their lives are important. Drive well, drive like those people are your own family members because even though you do not know them and they are not members of your family, they are somebodies father, mother, sister, brother, wife, somebodies husband, cousin, uncle, aunt, grandma, even grandpa.
They are somebodies everything and they are loved and want them to come home.
Love and peace to you all.
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