Posted on 09/03/2009 10:59:50 AM PDT by Steelfish
Boy Loses Both Grandpas To Crashes In One Day
3-year-old also involved in one of the car accidents; he survives
JONESTOWN, Pa. - A 3-year-old boy lost both his grandfathers on the same day in separate Pennsylvania car crashes, one of which the boy himself survived.
The boy was with his 67-year-old paternal grandfather, John Kroh Sr., on Tuesday when their SUV was hit head-on by another vehicle.
Kroh and another man died at the scene near Jonestown, but the boy survived. Police say the driver who hit them was drunk and will be charged with vehicular homicide.
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It is so important to wear your seatbelts.
My Lord...Poor little guy,losing both grampas at once,and so violently. Hope he wasn’t injured badly.
Sometimes the world just sucks.
He should have been dragged over to the ditch and a bullet put through his head. No mercy for drunk drivers that kill or maim others.
Boys who grow up listening to their grandfathers tell their life stories have a completely different outlook on life.
I can imagine how differently I would have lived my life if I didn’t have the wisdom of my grandfathers always in the back of my mind.
Terrible loss for a little boy.
I remember several years ago my boss got a phone call at work... both his parents, and both his wife’s parents and one cousin all got killed in a wreck down in Florida while they were on vacation together. Devastating.
Yep. I never knew my grandfathers,and feel as if i’ve missed out on some things,even though I am just a dumb ol’girl :)
But my dad is responsible for helping to keep me a tomboy as I was growing up. I still remember the Texaco truck he bought me one year for Christmas when I was about four or five and when he would take me to work with him (he was a local truck driver and I loved riding with him!).
Final Destination?
My Dad was a logger for thirty years then started a gravel business and drove truck for the rest of his life.
I got to ride skidders, loaders, fell trees, build roads, ride along in trucks; good stuff. The best part was working in the shop getting greasy (and hopefully not getting in the way).
By the way, both my Grandma’s had some pretty good stories too!
Dreadful. Just terrible.
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