Posts Tagged ‘written story’
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
I woke up to a bright light. Sitting in the back seat, my head fell because the door it leaned on was opened from the outside. I was caught by the back of my brand new sweater and lifted out of the car. Waking up I realized, my arms were cuffed behind my back and I was being escorted to the hospital entrance. I tried to remember if I had been injured in any way, but I felt fine.
My name is Julian Contreras and I graduated from High School in 2004. I was a strong student and graduated with academic honors to include, National Honor Society and Spanish NHS. I was Vice President of the Art Club, an active member of student council and also participated in football, track, and cross-country. My how time flies…
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
Imagine you’re making a long nine-hour drive and you’ve just spent the entire weekend staying up late with friends that you haven’t seen in a long time. You’re alone, it’s starting to get dark outside, and the lack of sleep is starting to catch up to you.
You think, “maybe I’ll pull out my phone to make a call, that’ll keep me awake.” Before you know what’s happening, you’ve crossed over the yellow line into oncoming traffic – and then nothing…
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
On Saturday, December 6, 2008, in Garland, TX, many lives were changed in an instant. My son, along with many of his good friends, were headed back to a party. There were 3 cars, 2 friends in the front car, which was a convertible Corvette, my son was in the car behind them with some [...]
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
On September 7, 2008 two China Spring High School seniors were killed on their way back home from work on Highway 6. They both worked at J.C. Pennys at our local mall. They crossed over a median and hit another vehicle head on. Both were ejected from the car before the impact from the other [...]
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
My 25 year-old son, Chance Wilcox, was killed by an aggressive and reckless 23 year-old female driver on March 24, 2008. He was riding with a friend and on his way home at 8:30 pm in the evening. I had just spoken with him less than one hour before. They were entering the freeway when [...]
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
It was 2001 and 4 of my cousins were going out to have a good time. The driver had been drinking. One of the passengers had a very bad feeling and went home, trying to get his sister to leave with him but she wouldn’t go. They were speeding down a curvy, narrow road and [...]
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
My friend LeAndra Marie Milliner was riding home with her boyfriend after school one day. He was taking her home and coming around the curve. He was going too fast, the truck flipped, she was partially ejected from the truck and it landed on top of her because she was not wearing her seat belt. [...]
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Last year my friend Tasha had begged her parents to let her go to this party. Her parents said no that she could not go because there would be alcohol there. Tasha rebelled. After her parents went to sleep, she took their Chrysler 300 and went to the party. She went and had a good [...]
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Joshua Armendariz is my cousin. I just want to share a couple of times with him, but he was an amazing cousin. The best cousin and friend that I could ever have. On Easter day (two years ago) we were at his mother’s house. That day we had a lot of fun. We played together [...]
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Ashleigh is my 21-year-old sister, she is older then me so I have always looked up to her. She has always had a bad drinking problem, and riding in cars with others who have been drinking and it was only a matter of time until it caught up to her. It was in the month [...]
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
If you read further down there is a tragic story that occurred on April 5, 2008. Well, my son was THAT DRIVER. Many stories have been told with their own versions. People make my son to be the horrible one in this, only by what people have told them. Because the people who truly don’t [...]
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
One time my friends and I were going to a sleep over. There were 5 persons in the car and I was driving. My “supposed” friends were making loud noises and moving around so much so that I couldn’t concentrate on my driving and I crashed into two trucks. It was my worst day ever [...]
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
When I was about twelve or thirteen I was supposed to go with my mom to work. It was bring your daughter to work day and it ended up raining. She got in an accident that day and she hit a tree that crushed the whole passenger side, where I was supposed to be. If [...]
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Somewhere around the middle of my 8th grade summer my family and I had been relaxing at home. I had been watching tv, my mom was in her bedroom reading a book, and my dad had been in the kitchen putting up the leftovers from dinner. Everything had been quiet and kind of peaceful until [...]
