So yesterday I was at work and I randomly called my mom because we were supposed to be meeting up after I was off work. She told me, "John wrecked his truck, I'll call you back!" and hung up on me. I was shocked!!! I called John and he told me he was in the process of being loaded into an ambulance but was feeling ok considering... All he knew about Holly at the time was she was in a different ambulance and he would call me back with updates. Needless to say, I was rather upset. My mom called me back to say that they were waiting to hear whether the injuries were severe enough to warrant airlifting them to Calgary as there would be no point in driving to B.C. if they weren't there. She called me at work to say that they were going to be kept in Cranbrook and I needed to meet her ASAP at my house so we could leave. John kept us updated throughout the trip about how they both were!
So, Praise God for John and Holly! And Praise God that they are relatively unscathed!
They were driving into Cranbrook, B.C. and were broadsided by someone who was trying to turn left across the highway. John tried to swerve but the momentum with which he was already going and the movement of the other vehicle caused his truck to roll. It rolled at least twice they figured and then slid on its roof for about 150-200 meters. It sheared off the metal toolbox that was bolted to the back and squashed it as flat as a pancake (a large one but a pancake none-the-less) and broke off both of the doors of the box, the back and front windsheilds both broke, the back one smashed out completely and the front one looked like it was caving in, the doors were sealed shut from the impact, John crawled out through his window and someone smasked in the window on Holly's side so she could get out... There are marks from where it slid all over the vehicle and the gas cap looks as though it is closed, only it is facing the wrong way. John found one of the stickers he had on his window with part of the window still stuck to it when he showed us the scene in the dark last night. We cleaned up the truck and took all of their stuff away from it today... Most of it is covered in glass or rocks or oil but most of it is still usable. The digital camera Holly got for grad didn't make it and John's laptop was thrown and is smashed in the case and all of the lights that John added are broken and many of the things they had in the back is mangled and most of the camping stuff is ruined. My mom and I looked at the truck today and John and Holly stood and held each other while they both cried.
My mom said that it's amazing that they both came through it with so few injuries. John's pretty shaken up, he has some bruises and scratches and is achy and other than he is refusing to drive, he seems pretty normal. Holly on the other hand has scratches all over her feet and her hands, road rash on her wrist, stitches in one hand and some bruises. They gave her morphine for pain and had her on I.V. because she fainted at the scene. They will both become more sore as time goes on... It goes with the after effects of the accident. Holly said that her dad won't believe her so we took a ton of pictures of the truck which I need to go get developed soon.
The one thing that came through the entire ordeal without anything more than a little dirt on it was a framed picture of the two of them that John always takes with him...
