Car crash claims third child of wounded Iraq veteran

[Lone_Star_Dem]

Source: Associated Press

DALLAS — A wounded Iraq veteran and his wife have lost a third child from injuries the boy suffered in a car accident on the way to visit his father in the hospital.

Three weeks after his siblings died in an Oct. 13 accident on the gusty West Texas plains, 9-year-old Tyler Johnson died Saturday at Children's Medical Center Dallas.

Army Spc. John Austin Johnson was waiting for his wife, Lisa, and their three kids to visit him at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio when the deadly crash occurred on Interstate 10 about 12 miles east of Ozona.

Lisa Johnson overcorrected the steering in her sport utility vehicle after encountering a blast of wind on the drive from El Paso, causing the car to roll at least four times, officials have said.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/chronicle/5273559.html

[TwilightGardener]

1. How much heartbreak can one family endure? How awful.

[democrank]

2. Enough to break my heart.

This poor family......

[snappyturtle]

3. How truly sad. nt

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[Robbien]

5. That poor woman. Hopefully she has a strong support system

How would one cope throughout all this without one? All of her children dead and her husband with brain damage problems.

[K8-EEE]

6. Tragic -- There's just no words.

How much can one couple endure?

[orleans]

7. heartbreaking. n/t

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. Oh how awful!

I hope he recovers, and that their bond is stronger and closer as a result of this tragedy...so sad.