Prayer Request - Brian, Rachel, & William Mooney

Rachel, William and I were involved in a fairly serious car accident [on Friday]. Just north of Jonesboro, a large delivery truck slammed into the side of my car and drove our vehicle into a gas tanker eighteen wheeler.

The delivery truck was apparently trying to cross the highway from a side road and the driver said she just didn't see us. She was ticketed for failure to yield, quite naturally. But the police said that the gas tanker, if you can imagine, is what saved us (I guess since it didn't explode), and our being in a large vehicle. If it hadn't been for the gas tanker we would have probably slid off the road and rolled over into a flooded field. And if we had been in a car he said the eighteen wheeler would have run over us. So it could have been much worse.

An ambulance took us to the emergency room in Jonesboro. Rachel had a head injury from where her head hit the window, which we hope will not be serious, and William had two of his teeth knocked out and some cuts, which caused a great deal of bleeding and just terrified us as you might imagine. Standing there waiting on the ambulance as he bled on me and cried was one of the worst moments of my life, but we were fortunate to walk out of that car. We all got x-rays but William's was the worst because they made me hold him while he was screamed and bled all over me.

So far we have all been released from the emergency room in Jonesboro and my parents took us home to Memphis, but they said the worst was to come. We will probably be here several days to rest and make sure William is okay since we're around good hospitals here.

Don't feel sorry for us a bit though. We all feel very fortunate right now. If you saw the car you would know why. But a quick prayer for Rachel and William would be greatly appreciated by me.

We miss you all,
Brian
IREmoonsic@aol.com