Firefighter responding to head-on collision finds wife and son are victims
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A Texas firefighter responding to the scene of a head-on collision found his wife and 7-year-old son were among the victims of the crash.
Aaron Van Riper said he couldn’t believe either of them survived.
"It's my family. My wife was laying there on the ground. (By) the look of the car, I don't know how either of them lived," Van Riper said. "There was nothing left of that car."
Van Riper’s wife, Amber, and son, Jonathan, were airlifted to the hospital, and his wife endured 9 hours of surgery to repair a broken pelvis. Both are expected to recover.
The car carrying Amber and her son collided with an oncoming pickup truck. The accident is still under investigation.
The family does not have insurance, KTRK reported, and friends have created a GoFundMe account to help pay their expenses.
