New Years Day was exciting to say the least....
My son was driving back from Ottawa after being with his newborn son and wife for 2 weeks in the Children's hospital there. He was lucky to get the 2 weeks off to be with his new family but he had to get home to work Jan 2. On the way home, he drove over a patch of black ice (it was -30C), lost control and hit a rock cut head on at 100KM/hour. The air bag in the late model Ford 150 failed to deploy. He survived with no injuries other than a bruise from the seat belt. Police and people on the scene couldn't believe he wasn't hurt. The thing was, he had phoned us at 8:30 am (Hand's free I might add)to wish us a Happy New Year when he started shouting Oh no... Oh no then my wife and I both heard him hit the cut... then silence for several minutes. The phone had been knocked from it's holder and ended up in the passenger's door. Eventually he was able to assure us that he was ok. I ended up driving for 5 hours one way to pick him up in the hospital and then another 5 hours to bring him home. Needless to say, day 1 of 2018 initially wasn't very happy, but when everyone got home, we all gave thanks.
The truck is fully insured and will be replaced and his son and wife are coming home at the end of the week from the hospital.
Happy New Year.
