Rara’s Car Accident

Rara tends Alice and Claire two or three times a week while Marc and Frances work and Frances goes to school. Ryan was out of school on Monday, January 17 and Tuesday, January 18. He was going to go with Rara on Tuesday to help with Alice and Claire. Monday evening, he just decided that he didn’t want to go.

Emigration Canyon is a crazy road in the winter. There is one specific spot where a drain has been removed (at the request of bikers) that ices over the entire road. There have been several accidents there since the drain was removed, and the canyon residents have asked many times for it to be reinstalled. Rara hit that spot and started sliding. She ended up spinning and then going up the side of the mountain, with the car coming to rest on the passenger side. Luckily, she was driving fairly slowly, so she was only bruised a little bit in the accident, instead of being seriously injured. But had Ryan gone with her, he likely would have been more injured, with the car landing on that side.

Rara’s Jeep was totaled, but at least she was ok! Whenever we shared the pictures (including on Facebook), no one could believe that she just walked away!