Saturday, March 17 – Car Accident

I feel so thankful that my brother Bob, his wife, Gwen, their dog, Holly, and my dad were not badly hurt in a car accident on Saturday.  Bob and Gwen had decided to take my dad out for a nice leisurely car drive in the Brantford area on Saturday when a totally obnoxious drunk ran a stop sign and hit Bob’s car on the driver’s side (front part of the car) and then took off.  A couple of young men chased the two people in this car down and made them return to the scene of the accident. The woman was so drunk she could hardly stand up and her male passenger still had a beer in his hand walking back to the scene of the accident and when he saw the police, he put the can of beer behind a fence but the lady that took in Holly saw him do this and pointed it out to police.  What an angel she is!  It is absolutely unbelievable that people have not a care in the world for what could have happened and how devastating it could have been for our family.   Meanwhile, the police, fire department and  3 ambulances were called to take all three to the hospital.  My brother was not able to get out of the car and the fire department had to cut the driver’s side door off to get him out.  I thank God that all their injuries were minor – sore chests and stomach from seatbelts and air bags deploying in order to keep them from serious injury.  A kind woman who lived nearby took in Holly since they were all put into ambulances to be taken to the hospital.  My brother, Roy, drove to Brantford to pick Holly up and then proceeded to the hospital until they were all released.  They did keep dad a few hours longer than Bob and Gwen as they wanted to make sure that his chest pain was just bruising from the trauma and not something more serious.  As Bob said, if they had been just a couple of seconds later getting into the intersection, the accident could have had devastating results for both he and Gwen being on that side of the car. It certainly has shaken them all up as I am sure you can imagine.  So from starting out as a leisurely Saturday afternoon drive, they did not arrive home until 1:30 early Sunday morning.  I felt helpless being away in Florida but Roy was keeping me well informed.  We will be leaving for home this week and I will be happy to get home again.  Holidays are nice but there is nothing like home especially when something like this happens.

Here is a picture of Bob’s car (it is totaled) and obviously will need to be replaced with a new one.  I hope they throw the book at the driver of the other car and she loses her license for life.