On the night of January 25 2004, two cars crashed into each other on M72 in Grand Traverse County Michigan, leaving a family with 4 young children devastated.

A woman was killed; her boyfriend, Randy Elkins and his four children were left seriously injured.

10 year old Brittany is paralyzed from the waist down. 11 year old Eden is paralyzed from the chest down and 4 year old Natasha has a broken neck. 2 year old Tegan is out of the hospital with a broken collar bone.

The two older girls are facing a long period of healing and therapy. They were transferred to The University of Michigan Hospital 250 miles from their family.

The family is facing a mountain of medical bills, and they can use all the help they can get. Let’s all get together and try to help these little babies in the only way we can.

Please send a donation to help these beautiful children, Natasha, Eden, Brittany and Tegan. You can use the donation button at the top of the page if you wish, please mention the “Elkins fund” in the note area.

Or you can send me a check here, with the word “Elkins” in the note area on the check. I will forward your donations to the family.

This is a tremendous tragedy that I am sure all of us would not want to enter our own lives. These little children should be enjoying life, not stuck in a hospital bed.

Your donations can help them get the care they need, and hopefully bring a small ray of sunshine into their tragic lives.

Thank You for taking a moment to help.

Please make check out to:
Lary Ellis
649 Houston Road
Bluefield WV. 24701-9779


Special Thanks to Dewain Gardner Chapter President Michigan Chapter DTR #3 for putting together the information on this tragic event.

 

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Donation on the way through Pay Pal. I know you'll use this to help those babies.

DeaconWayne

 

While I think that this is a tragedy I think that if these people had planned for their children and their future this post would not be here. May God help them.

 

geez was no1 wearing a seat belt? i ask just out of curiosity. seems like alot of injuries if strapped in. dang id be devastated if something like that happened to my daughter let alone the 2 that are paralyzed. my family went through that when my brother crashed a motorcycle and he was paralyzed........ a very long road ahead of those 2 sweethearts. GOD BLESS

 

dieselcrazy:

I would assume that the girls were buckled up when the accident happened. Our news services almost always report when an accident victim is not buckled up, and nothing was ever mentioned about that.

DeWain

 

thanks dpg. i was just curious. seems like so much damage to this family. i cant even imagine what the scene must have looked like

 

Man. I guess I should consider myself lucky. My sister was in a very bad accident on Saturday. Totaled her car. She broadsided a Tahoe at ~60mph. The cop said it was amazing that they lived. My sympathies go out to the family of these children.

 

What happened to the other car and its passengers?

I will add this family to my prayer list. Please keep us updated.

 

Sorry I don't have an answer, but any article that I've read hasn't mentioned the other car and passengers.

DeWain

 

any updates? This family has been on my heart everysince I read this. Please update this thread when new information is found.

thanks
Phillip

 

Thanks for the post, Phillip. I will add new information as it becomes available. Things have been quiet the last couple of weeks. I do not know the family personally, so I don't have a direct contact there. But I will be happy to pass along anything that I find out. I do know that the next-to-the-youngest girl, with the broken neck, is now home as well as the baby. They are both expected to make a full recovery. The two older girls, the ones most seriously hurt, are still in the University of Michigan Hospital.

DeWain

 

It's on the way Top...

 

Thats ashame that those 2 babies are in that condition. I myself am in a wheelchair due to a auto accident that left me paralyzed from waist down happened Dec.23,1982. They will get well quickly being that young and yes they do have a long hard road ahead of them lots of learning how to do things all different. My prayers are gonna be sent there way.