The call from Jordon came Sunday night. We were thinking at first he was joking, as he usually does. He said that he and Ben wrecked the truck, that it was totaled. Melanie and I were at the Huddle House, just finishing a breakfast supper. We drove across town down Pinemount, then down Birley Road to Johnson Road, where we found the truck off the dirt road, over a fence. Ben was driving with Jordon and two girls in the passenger seat. They said they were not speeding, but heading down the dirt road when the back brakes locked up, they went into a spin, flipping three times,coming to rest upright over the fence.By a miracle, no one was hurt, the air bags did not deploy. There at the scene was Ben's parents and the Pope's, whose daughter was with Jordon and Ben. We called Trey and he bought his 4 wheeler and pulled the truck off the fence. We had to change the front tire which was off the rim. The truck cranked and Russell and I drove it slowly back to the Popes house. Two days later the insurance adjuster came and totaled it out, cutting us a check. The next day the salvage company came and got it.
That little truck drove many a mile with Landon over to St Augustine and back and all over. It was a good truck and a crying shame to lose it.
But, it was a big blessing that no one was hurt.
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