We learned just last week of the horrific car accident that took the life of Greg and Karrie Provost. Today, Greg’s mother spoke with the media regarding the importance of wearing seat belts.
Officials who investigated last week’s deadly car wreck concluded that the couple had not been wearing seat belts. They were ejected from the car during the rollover. The Provost’s children, however, were left relatively unscathed in the back seat. Greg Provost’s mother Nancy is urging others to take this crash as a lesson to always wear your seat belt.
According to KSL, Greg Provost wasn’t one to wear a seat belt. His wife Karrie usually did, but it is thought that she had it off briefly to tend to the kids in the back seat. Nancy told KSL: “They [the Provost couple] just have to know how much pain is caused by obviously losing a child, a child losing their parents and not taking that two seconds to buckle up.”
At work here was an interesting phenomena: parents who will buckle their children up tight in car seats and booster seats to keep them protected while they themselves will go unrestrained. Not considered by the parents in these situations is the certain tragedy that will befall their children when those children lose their parents. It is obvious that both the child’s personal safety needs to be protected as well as their expectation that their parents will always be there for them. Nancy’s counsel to Utah drivers is sound: take the two seconds and buckle up!
Published by: Ron Kramer
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