Kids Car Accident

Last Thursday 9/6 I was getting ready to get my hair done and got a phone call from my oldest daughter saying that she had been in a car accident! All she kept saying is it's not her fault and Ethan is bleeding bad, and what should she do? I told her to call 911 and she said oh this is where we are at and hung up! I have never felt so hopeless and scared in my life! Here is what I pulled up to.

The car Kenz was driving is in the middle the accident had 4 total cars the lady behind Kenz started the accident. My kids took the biggest hit! The car was about 2 feet smaller on the back and 2 feet shorter in the front. Not shocking but they are totaling the car.

 I will not post the yuck pictures of Ethan as they are pretty graphic but here is what he looked like when he got the hospital! So lucky to be alive and did  have to get over 100 stitches and have a pretty nasty concussion and bruises from the seat belt!

 Kenz has a pretty nasty concussion also and some great bruises from the seat belt. The picture doesn't show the bruises to good but you can imagine.

I have only had a few times in my kids life that I felt someone was looking out for them or watching over them but this was a surreal moment when I looked in the car and saw a pair of sneakers and a lunch box smashed in the back of the hatch back and the crash literally stopped at the back seat that Ethan was in and did not crush him! Yes he did get some nasty cuts from hitting the front seat, nasty bruises from seat belt and is having memory trouble from his concussion but he really did walk away from this and will heal with time!

For the 2 girls in the front seat Kenz and her friend Hailey they both smacked their heads to get some good concussions and are really struggling with school and just writing a basic sentence. The air bags did not deploy if the front of the car would have gone into the other car about another 1/2 inch they would have and that would have made the injuries for these two much worse, according to the officers on the scene it could've burned their faces and done damage to their knees and Kenz just having knee surgery who knows what could have happened!

I really can not put into words my emotions that I have been feeling, I have feelings of gratitude that my kids walked away from this, frustration over the injuries they do have seeing your kids in pain is never a good thing, but most of all blessed that they had been watched out for that afternoon and they will get better, they will have a few rough weeks of pain and stress of the brain healing, but they WALKED away from something that could have been worse as I have seen from people I have known that have lost loved ones to car crashes.