Two drunken teens flew their SUV off the road and wrapped it around . . . .

a tree in my front yard. We had just gotten in from taking the kids out to dinner (I'll post more on that later - do you know how rarely this family of six goes out to dinner these days??!!) and were getting ready for bed.

Suddenly, screeching tires and a loud EXPLOSION and crash made our hearts jump into our throats. Monty yells, "Call 911!! Someone just died!" He dashes into the living room putting his shoes on and screaming at me to put on my pants. Jessie's on the cell with 911, Monty's out the door with the flashlight, and he's up there (our house is downhill from the road with a grove of tall trees between us and the road [thank God])checking and talking to these two kids with the crashed vehicle pouring fumes and smoke smelling like it's gonna blow at any second.

One boy is lying on his back beside the car talking to Monty, and the other is sitting on the bank beside the road with his head in his hands rocking back and forth and talking to a girl who'd stopped after seeing the wrecked car. One of the boys said there were two of them in the car, and the other said there were three, so everyone's frantically searching for a possible 3rd person thrown from the car. Amazingly enough, both seem to be shaken and cut up, but not critically injured. My neighbors have walked over and are standing with me asking about the wreck and the boys and shaking their heads. We are all amazed that the kids are alive, and we talk about how we as parents worry about this happening to our kids every time they leave the house no matter who they are with or whether or not they are drinking.

The ambulances gather up the boys and leave one after the other. I hope to get more information on the boys' conditions later today. I know where the ambulances took them, and I'm hoping I can get the families on the phone.

Because no one could see very well last night in the dark, they removed the vehicle from my yard and as much of the strewn debris as they could, but they told us they'd come back today and finish up. Sure enough, by 8 am, they were out in the yard gathering up junk. Aside from the cursory empty beer cans and liquor bottles, we found a styrofoam cooler and full but dented beer can right beside our sidewalk 100 ft from the road! In the flower bed inside that sidewalk was a plastic gas can full of gasoline. There were headlights, broken off car parts, and other items from the car over 100ft where it crashed. It really shook us all up. We are kind of all still shaky today.