My husband and son were in a car accident.........(PICTURES added)

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Neither were seriously hurt, thank God!

My husband was taking my son back to his residential group home after a weekend home pass with us. They were on the Interstate going east and traffic suddenly slowed down ahead of them. One car up ahead of them veered into the south ditch to avoid hitting the vehicle in front of them. The driver of the car directly in front of my husband slammed on their brakes. My husband slammed on his brakes, but couldn't veer to the right because there was a truck beside him, and couldn't veer to the left into the median because there was a sheriff's car sitting there right at the very spot he would have needed to have veered into, so our minivan ran into the back of the SUV ahead. I was not with them, because I wasn't feeling well and had decided to stay home.

The air bags deployed, and my husbands right inner forearm is covered with minor scrapes and scratches, most likely from the airbag. My son said he might have a bruised knee, but otherwise he didn't even hit his airbag. They both had their seatbelts on, which probably saved them from a LOT of injuries. Our van then went into the median, horn blowing, and finally stopped. It just missed hitting the Sheriff's car. My son had to pull some wires to get the horn to stop honking.

They called me and told me about it. I called a friend, who drove me to where they were (about 1 hour 30 minutes away). I took some pictures, which I will post in this thread later. I'm doing this during my lunch break, and when I left home this morning I had the pictures uploading to ImageStation.

Deb