The Crash: Flashback

A beautiful woman with long flowing auburn hair and deep blue eyes had left the 1st street elementary school with her second youngest son Donatello or as his family affectionately like to call him, Donnie. Susan Hamato smiled at her little boy while he chatted excitedly in the back seat, his light auburn hair some such like his mothers fell into his ember eyes with his large gap tooth smile stretched across his face at the 1st place trophy sitting on the seat right next to him as they drove home from the annul science fair that the school preform for their students.

The loving mother sat happily in the front seat of the car as she listened to every word of her precious little genius go on about his project and the reaction the judges had over the 3rd graders level of intelligence. His enthusiasm was off the charts as he waved his arms around living it up in his victory, she grinned into the rear view mirror at his gap tooth smile as she told him how proud she was of him and that his brothers and father would be just as proud once they reached her eldest son Leonardo's Karate match.

Turning her attention back to the road as they neared the intersection ahead only to have everything change in the blink of an eye; Time seemed to move in slow motion as a loud horn honked from her left her head wiped sideways just in time to see a transport truck skidding through the red light and crashing full force into the driver's side of the car. Small screams cried out as glass shattered in every direction, metal creaking and groaning as the sides of the car where dented inwards, skidding along with the trucks momentum only to finally come to a stop 10 feet from the intersection almost completely pulling the car under its grill along the way.

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The driver of the truck hopped out of his vehicle looking around at the destruction this harsh New York winter had caused. Chaos had broken out as people were screaming around him phones out as they tried to call 911 hoping that the people in the car would be alright. Slowly the driver moved his way around the destruction and looked inside the totaled vehicle trying to call out to the people in the wreckage to see if he could help them at all before to paramedics got there, and judging by those stirrings it would be soon. He leaded down to look at the women in the driver's seat her head was down on the string wheel blood covered her face in deep gashes and her body was broken in more ways than one as the car had almost completely crumbled under the weight of the truck crushing her along with it.

It was a sight he wished he never had to witness as he reached out with a shaking hand towards the women and placed two fingers on the women's neck looking for a pulse…there was none. She was gone. Pulling his hand away he dropped his head down in grief, but stopped as he spotted a smaller white hand in the backseat of the vehicle just over the women's shoulder. 'No' he thought as he dashed over the hood towards the back passenger side door of the car not pinned down by the trucks grill and lend inside the window were a small boy maybe 8 or 9 sat half curled over and covered in blood dripping down from his forehead, where it most likely collided with the window knocking him unconscious. His skin was pale and his breathe was shallow and seemed to have a slight wheeze to it as he wondered if the kid would be able to survive this.

Until all hope left him as he saw a large chuck of metal sticking out from the his trucks grill directly into the small boy's side, it looked like it went down through his rib cage and out his lower back on the left side most likely damaging some internal organs as he also noticed a small line of blood running down the child`s mouth. A grimace of pain on the poor kids face even through unconsciousness was clear on the amount of pain he was forced to endure, but before he could get any closer a hand dropped down onto his shoulder startling him slightly and whipping around to see who it could be.

The EMT's had arrived on scene and pulled him away from the area in order to get to the child; they worked fast with gentle hands checking over the child and calling for tools to help cut him out. The chaos seemed to spread as Firefighters brought over what looked like giant bolt cutters and worked with the Medics in order to save this young boy's life.

Within a matter of minutes they succeeded in cutting the metal off the grill and pulling the child out of the now missing door and carefully pulling the boy out of the vehicle and placed him onto the stretcher. The truck driver was in shocked as he could still see the metal rod still stick out of the kid's side, the damage looked worst now that he was out of the car as the crisp white sheets were already beginning to turn red with his life's blood as the EMT's rushed pass him. The medics kept him on his side as to not aggravate the wound more while they lifted the stretcher up into the ambulance slamming the doors shut behind them and quickly driving off as fast as they could.

His eye's drifted over to the little boy's late mother, her body had been removed from the wreckage in the middle of the chaos and placed into a black body bag beside the car before being lifted up again and carried away into another ambulance. Police were running the perimeter of the scene keeping people back and taking statements, to find out the true nature of the accident.

It was then that the driver noticed a voice calling out to him, the officer stud behind him asking him if he was alright as well as questioning him about the crash, he told the officer the truth; that he had lost control of the truck on some ice and honked the horn as he skidded into the intersection on the road and crashed into the families vehicle pulling it along with it. With a sad look in his eyes the officer had turned him around and brought him towards the cursor reading him his rights as he helped him into the back cage of the cursor were he could bring him into the station to await trail.

Later on the truck drive known as David Cole would be brought up on charges of involuntary manslaughter and a count of reckless driving, where he will be sent to prison to live out his sentence of 5 years without bail.

End Intro