BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The McClellan family revisited the site of a head-on collision that changed their lives forever, on Noriega Road, next to Polo Park. The family is asking for more traffic safety in the area.
What started as a normal day, taking her son to school ended with all three of them in the hospital.
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The McClellan’s Camry was hit head-on by a Volkswagen Beatle, and the Beatle’s driver claimed she fell asleep behind the wheel after working all night.
Deidra McClellan, was knocked out during the collision, her 13-year-old son’s arm was broken, and her youngest son was traumatized.
The anniversary is almost to the day said Deidra, “I had my oldest Jordan with me, and my littlest was Aaron in the back seat.”
“They put a blanket over my mom ’cause I’m guessing they thought she was passed because she wasn’t moving,” said Jonathan McClellan, the older son.
Aaron McClellan, Deidra’s 3-year-old younger son suffered from a seatbelt burn, and was traumatized, “For days after the accident, he went silent, he went mute, I don’t know if that was some type of processing trauma but he went mute, he didn’t speak to anybody, he didn’t cry.”