Husband steers into crash to save wife, unborn child

[SivVulk]

Erin Wood recalls her husband Brian as a selfless man who was counting the days until the couple welcomed the birth of their first child. And while she is filled with grief, she is equally filled with gratitude to him for sacrificing his life to save two others — hers and that of their unborn baby.

According to police, the driver of the other vehicle was trying to take off her sweater while her front-seat passenger took the wheel. Washington State Trooper Mark Francis told NBC News that the vehicle crossed over the center line while the driver and passenger “jerked the wheel, overreacted and overcompensated. [They] steered back to the left and lost control, and that’s when they came head-on into the husband and wife.”

Brian Wood was killed instantly, and two male passengers in the vehicle driven by Jordyn Weichert were ejected from the back and killed. Police found heroin, cocaine, marijuana and syringes in the Weichert vehicle, and a .25-caliber pistol was found on the body of one of the men killed.

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So three people lost their lives on account of one woman feeling the need to remove her sweater

[Malcolm Wright]

I understand why the wife believes he swerved to the right so that she and the baby would not take the brunt of the collision, but objectively, its hard to state his intentions as fact. I think most people would steer to the right if a vehicle crosses over the median from the left. There's an inbuilt reluctance to voluntarily enter the lane of opposing traffic: people prefer to veer off the road unless doing so would be obviously lethal.

[86Dùde]

I disagree. Last year I had to make a split second decision that saved me and most importantly, my daughters life. I had to literally put the car in a ditch. Black ice. To add insult to injuries that were not sustained a salt truck appeared not 5 minutes later. If I'd been 5 minutes late it would have never happened, but the point is it wasn't a reflex. My only thought was to save my kid's life and that was it. It doesn't prove that your wrong, however, I'm just adding insight from similar situation.

[Malcolm Wright]

I disagree. Last year I had to make a split second decision that saved me and most importantly, my daughters life. I had to literally put the car in a ditch. Black ice. To add insult to injuries that were not sustained a salt truck appeared not 5 minutes later. If I'd been 5 minutes late it would have never happened, but the point is it wasn't a reflex. My only thought was to save my kid's life and that was it. It doesn't prove that your wrong, however, I'm just adding insight from similar situation.

I hear you. It is definitely possible that he did what he did because he was thinking along the same lines as you were. And as his wife, who was sitting in the car with him when it happened, she's better placed to know than I am.