I have just heard the news that my nephew was in a horrible car accident. The car was going very fast, around a sharp corner. The driver lost control and my nephew was thrown out the passenger-side window, several feet from the car.
The good news: he’s alive and able to walk.
The bad news: he has suffered serious brain injury and is recovering in hospital.
By the grace of God (and his Guardian angel) he is alive and not a quadriplegic. Really.
The other person in the car had their seatbelt on and suffered a minor concussion.
Over the course of the last few days, I have wept for my nephew and how this injury and life-altering experience may affect him in the days, weeks, months and years to come. And my heart has gone out to his wife and young children. She is a strong woman, who is handling all this right now with a strength and spirit that is amazing, but the time will come when all that has happened will really hit her.
I am thankful to the doctors and emergency teams that helped him and I am thankful for his guardian angel. When he’s feeling better, I’d like to smack him (though not on the head) for not wearing his seatbelt. This was a close-call.
* Please * buckle-up: yourself and your children. Do it all the time. Do it properly. Do it today.
“Unbelted occupants of a motor vehicle can, in essence, become projectiles in a collision, seriously injuring themselves and others. In almost 60% of all car accident fatalities, the victim was not wearing a seat belt” ( Source ).
If this isn’t enough, here is some additional information:
