The phone rings at 12:30 am Friday morning. Ben picks up the phone…
“Dad, I’ve got good news and bad news. The bad news is I wrecked the car —-it’s totaled. The good news is it’s not my fault and I’m OK. “
Cael was coming home from a late night dance rehearsal practice, and saw a car coming toward him starting to swerve in and out of the other lanes. There was a car in front of him that he was following, but then the car coming the opposite direction hit the car in front of him, ripping off the driver side wheel and causing the truck to continue out of control and Cael— in an attempt to avoid a head on collision swerved to the right, but the truck still hit all along the while driver side All along the side of the car, flipping him around putting him on the edge of the road where he narrowly missed a telephone pole before sliding next to a tree the drunk driver in the truck continued forward until he crashed into a concrete bench at a bus stop
Talk about a horrible phone call to get. We were so grateful and relieved that Cael was OK, but also incredibly frustrated and mad that someone would think it would be OK for them to get behind the wheel of a car after drinking.
The airbags exploded in the little black car that Cael was driving. Glass was everywhere and his arm had some lacerations on his left arm.
The police and ambulance were able to respond quickly and the drunk driver was loaded into the ambulance. The police took their report and we were able to drive up and bring Cael home and the car was towed away.
