Summer Journey - Home Again!

This last leg was a bummer ... we left Coushatta in the rain and it rained very heavily through most of the leg. In Winnie, Texas, an hour from home we were in the right lane and came over a rise at about 55 mph in moderate rain and Donna advised the traffic was slowing. I started slowing and suddenly she warned that a car(s) had stopped ahead. I slammed on the brakes but was hemmed in by a disabled truck on the shoulder being hooked up to a wrecker and traffic in the left lane. There was no place to go! The resultant collision wrecked the black car ahead of me which in turn hit the lead car. The occupants in both vehicles were injured; but, not life threatening and were taken off by ambulance. We found out later the woman in the lead car suffered a broken wrist and the man in the second car sustained cuts on his head. Donna and I were not injured. The rig didn't fair too well. The front plastic section was torn away as well as the right light and turn signal. There are scrapes along the right side.The steps are trapped closed by bent metal, the dash air is inoperative, there is damage to the jack system and generator (it still runs). Both windshields leak at the top. Although I was cited for failing to control speed, looking back on all of it, it was absolutely unavoidable. We will just have to see how it plays out. Thankfully, everyone came out of it; it could have been far worse. When you look at the second vehicle it is a miracle.

We were able to rope the front end together and drive home. Here are some pics:

A sad ending to a really wonderful summer trip.