The Accident That Changed Everything
Forty-seven days. That’s how long my twelve-year-old son, Jake, lay motionless in a hospital bed after being hit by a motorcycle. Forty-seven days since the sound of screeching tires and sirens shattered our lives.
The police said it was an accident — that Jake had chased a basketball into the street, that the rider wasn’t speeding, wasn’t drinking, that he had even stayed at the scene and performed CPR until the ambulance arrived.
