On our way to Mexico to visit Devin’s family this weekend, we had an accident. We were about 15 minutes away from Douglas, AZ on Davis Rd when our front left tire blew out. Devin tried his hardest to keep control of the truck, but we still ran off the road, through a barb wire fence, and then through some mesquite trees. He was yelling, I was screaming, Porter was crying, and Indy was really confused. As we were flying off the road and plowing through everything, I kept thinking in my mind “This is NOT happening!” Luckily none of us were injured, but I can’t say the same for the truck. It was in almost perfect condition when we bought it just a few weeks ago. Now the hood is really scratched up, the front bumper is dented a bit, and there are a few scratches on the driver’s side and a couple really deep big ones on the passenger’s side. As you can tell from the pictures, the barb wire got wrapped up in the bumper and around the axel’s and wheels. After we crashed a rancher stopped to make sure we were all okay. We asked if he had some wire cutters and he replied no, but he did have clippers used to clip horse’s hooves. He gave them to us and left. They didn’t work as well as wire cutters would have, but they did the job. We had called 911 to get help from the local DPS, but it took the sheriff an hour to get to us. Then when he arrived he took some pictures, wrote down our info, investigated the crash site, and THEN called for a tow truck. We had to wait another hour for the tow truck to get there. We wouldn’t have needed a tow truck, but the spare tire is under our truck and needs a special tool to get it down and unfortunately the previous owner of the truck left the wrong ones behind. The tow truck driver had to break the lock and cut the wire that was holding the spare tire on. He then helped Devin to change the blown out tire. So…we were stuck out in the desert for 2 hours and 45 minutes total. The kids were real troopers. They played in the dirt, in the bed of the truck, and watched movies on the portable dvd players we have. We ended up having to get a hotel in Douglas while Devin took the truck to get new tires. We needed to buy a new spare and then also one of the other tires had a pretty deep scratch in it from the barb wire, so we had to replace that one. I know it doesn’t sound that bad, but it was really scary. I kept thinking there was going to be a ditch that we would end up wrecking into, or end up flipping. I am so grateful that we weren’t injured. We definitely thanked Heavenly Father that evening for keeping us safe. We did make it to Mexico the next day safe and sound. I have NEVER been in a car accident before, and I don’t know if this really counts as one, but I have to say I never want to experience anything like that again.
