Saturday, July 3, 2010

Dad's wreck

I should have posted this earlier, forgot. My Dad was t-boned in his brand new pickup on Thursday. Neither he nor his friend, Lee, were seriously hurt-although Lee does have a broken rib. I am grateful for that as it could have been so much worse. He was driving slowly through a residential area and even slower for the intersection as there were no stop signs when out of nowhere came a big 4x4 with high wheels, hit Dad at the back edge of the passenger door turned him around at least once (Lee says twice), deployed the air bag, then the other truck passed him and rolled twice. Think he was driving just a little too fast? the other driver got a ticket (ya think) and his insurance is paying but dang that truck had less than 3,000 miles on it! Plus at nearly 84 such an event could be really bad, Dad has a few bruises and is a little sore so Whew!

1 comment:

a good yarn said...

Oh my goodness Gail! Thank heavens you Dad and his friend were not seriously injured. Trucks are replaceable - lives aren't. There are too many reckless people on the roads. Ann :-)