Thomas E. "Tom" Brinkman, Jr.is a Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives from Cincinnati... (wikipedia)
We hit this embankment. The car flipped over twenty-one times.
I wouldn't guarantee I would have listened. But at least there would have been someone there telling me.
Car flipped over on him - waist on up - flipped on me - waist on down - broke my back in three places. In a fraction of a second, I woke up in a shock trauma unit. I had tubes coming out of me. I couldn't move. I was paralyzed from the waist down.
Kids of all ages, they think they're invincible and it could never happen to them. I used to be in that boat myself.
You always think parents don't know. Parents know a lot more than you think they know.
I hope no kid or adult has to go through what I'm going through.
The car, in the accident, killed my friend. He was driving. I only had two beers that whole day. My friend was pretty wasted. I should have been driving, but that's the way things work out.