If you’ve followed the news the past couple of days, you probably heard about a terrible accident up here in Spring, involving five pre-teens, two of whom died. The accident happened one street over from where I live and it has hit our little community hard.
Nancy Holland and Reggie Aqui covered the story for KHOU-11, and Sarah Viren covered it for the Chronicle. I thought Viren’s story today was especially well done.
It is so difficult to comprehend what happened, but Viren’s story includes two quotes that provide some perspective:
“They were all good kids,” said Lauri Korenek, mother of Bradley, 12, who along with friends Cory Willey, 13, and Clint Crouch, 12, visited the crash site to plant their cross Thursday afternoon.
“The only thing to learn from this is that all kids think nothing bad will happen.”
[snip]
“They weren’t up to any trouble,” Holak said. “They weren’t troublemakers. They were just being kids.”
