Saturday evening, Kim VanHorn, her husband Sam and their 18-year-old son Alex were at Ford Field in Detroit.
The three were volunteering at Alex VanHorn’s brother’s band competition.
On the way home afterward, their lives would change forever.
“We remember fire and we remember screaming for each other,” Kim VanHorn said.
Around 11:42 that night, Michigan State Police say a semi-truck with a trailer came up on stopped traffic along I-96 in Webberville. Police say the semi didn’t see the backup, didn’t stop in time and created a fiery 15-vehicle crash.
Kim, Sam and Alex VanHorn were in one of the cars. None of them remember the initial impact.
“The next thing I know, I woke up and I had my head to the left, and I remember feeling like a big rush over my head,” Kim VanHorn said. “I looked up and saw a lot of fire and I remember screaming ‘help,’ and I couldn’t find my husband and I could hear my son screaming that he couldn’t get out.”
Four people were killed and 17 were injured.