Road Rage causes death...

[LadyCoonskinner]

Friday evening as we were traveling from Silsbee, TX where Steadfast pastors, my husbands cell phone rang. He looked at the caller id and said, "Faye. Why is she calling me?" He answered and was met with this story from my Mom.

"John I need ya'll to pray for Barbara and Donna and her husband and baby. they have been in an accident and all I know is that Donna called your aunt Mary and said,"Aunt Mary, we have been in a bad car wreck. I am in a ditch and I can't find my Momma."

My Mom then says "can ya'll pray right now for them, that's all I know."

Barbara is my Mother's baby sister (she is one of 12 children)
Donna is my aunt Barbars youngest daughter
Paul is Donna's husband
(I'm terrible, I can't think of the baby's name)

Anyway, my aunt went to them and when she got there she was screaming into the phone, "Oh my God....there is no top on the van and the hood is gone.....!!!!!"

What happened was my aunt was driving the van on Loop 289 in Lubbock Texas and evidentally she wasn't driving fast enough for this 25 year old Spanish man and he took exception to her driving and passed her and while passing her, he flipped her off. Well, being my family, you just don't do that without it being returned and they all flipped him off back..(not good English, but oh well)

Anyway, this made him really mad and he started ramming her van with his SUV and rammed her until she lost control of the van and rolled it and then caused it to flip end over end 3 times causing my cousin and her husband to be ejected from the van (no they were not wearing seatbelts, only the baby was strapped into a car seat).

My aunt was partially ejected and had to be cut out with the jaws of life. Donna was thrown out of the van and while being thrown out, it somehow ripped off her jean and she was thrown along the road causing road rash so bad she had to be put in the burn unit of the hospital. It also broke her pelvis in 2 places, broke her thumb and writst and mangled her ankle.

Paul was thrown from the vehicle causing severe head, chest and liver injuries, which he never recovered from. He died Saturday morning. He was completely brain dead when they got him to the hospital.

My aunt had a severely broken arm. They did surgery to put rods and plates in her arm and put a drain in her head because she ripped her head open from her eyebrows all the was back to her neck and shoulders.

Oh, I remember the baby's name..Landen. He was unharmed!!!! He was sent home with my aunt Mary.

They had to put her on a respirator and havent' been successful in getting her off of it. She's breathing on her own, but she fights them so horribly when they wean her off and try to take it out that they are afraid they will cause damage to her.

All of this said to say....please be careful while driving a vehicle, you never know what kind of idiot you are driving beside, behind, or in front of.

Also, please pray for my family.. they are worried that my aunt may not be "ok". Also, Donna is really mad at God. They do not go to church, although they know who He is and what He can do, they are a pretty wild bunch (drugs, alcohol, all types of things) THEY NEED GOD!!!!!