“I lost control of my car. You stopped to help me. I felt safer as you stood by my driver’s side window. That changed. In a split second, I saw your smile turn to concern as a semi came over the hill.”
‘I blacked out. ‘I’ve died, haven’t I?’ I couldn’t see anything but bright white light. I lifted my head. My airbag had deployed. You weren’t beside me anymore.’
‘She was at a dead stop in traffic. She looked in her rear-view mirror and saw a car coming full speed behind her. She braced herself.’
“When he finally looked up from his phone, it was too late. I’m sure the message is clear here.”
‘Keeley?,’ you whispered. I peeked back in. You were grinning that huge grin. ‘I love you, Keebee.’ I’m not happy to admit I got annoyed. Now, I think you were just preparing me.’
“I remember my mom on the phone telling me to ‘Get out, get out. Close your eyes, don’t look’. You knew I was coming home first that day. You knew.”
‘I ‘push the button’ and throw the car into reverse. Something was wrong. Everything started locking up on me. I push the brake and that’s locked, too! What. The Heck.’
“I knew this van was a push-start because it was one of the first things I said when I test drove it. ‘Ooooh this is so boujee!,’ I even told the sales man. You literally just push a button! It’s OBVIOUSLY not that hard.”
‘He guided us through the storm. The water was over the road. I had a sick feeling in my stomach. Stopping would put us in a more dangerous position.’
“It was so bad I could see only his brake lights at one point. We noticed the truck moving over to the left and I asked my husband, ‘Do you think he is pushing the excess water off the road for us?’ The driver of this truck restored my faith.”
‘Me? A minivan? I’m so young! I’m hip! This is madness. While I hated myself every minute of that test drive, I HAD NEVER FELT SO ALIVE!’
“There is SECRET STORAGE SPACE underneath these very FLOORBOARDS!? Don’t even get me started on those sliding doors, y’all. I PRESS A BUTTON AND THEY OPEN. It’s witchcraft! Witchcraft, I tell you!”
‘Before the trooper could tell me the cause of the crash, I asked if my son was texting while driving. His response was, ‘Yes ma’am.’
“Thomas was always one to lend a hand to anyone in need. On February 12, that’s exactly what he was doing. I wanted to know what text was so important it had taken my son away from everyone who loved him.”
‘I snapped this picture as they slowly passed me’: Woman thankful she didn’t join the ‘chorus of honks’ before learning the full story
“The first thing that popped into my head was, ‘Great, I’m behind a car that’s on the verge of breaking down right here on the highway. He’s probably looking for a place to pull over. I really hope his engine doesn’t explode in my face.'”
Mom warns other parents after son ‘wiggled out of his car seat’ as she was ‘flying down the interstate’
“My son might not have been alive. That car seat would have never protected him in an accident.”
