The family of 70-year-old Michael Sales is grieving a devastating loss after the Council Bluffs resident was killed in a horrific car crash involving a drunk driver, echoing a painful family history that has now repeated itself across generations.
According to NBC affiliate WOWT, Sales was driving home from work in September 2024 when his vehicle was rear-ended at high speed by another car, causing a fiery crash that claimed his life. Prosecutors say the driver, Rachel Bickerstaff, was traveling at an astonishing 139 miles per hour just seconds before the collision occurred.
The crash not only took Sales’ life but also killed Bickerstaff’s three young children who were inside her vehicle — a five-year-old, a newborn, and an 18-month-old — according to ABC. None of the children were properly restrained, and authorities later confirmed Bickerstaff was intoxicated at the time of the crash…