SPRINGFIELD, Mo.-Last week, a young man from Fair Grove was critically injured in a wrong-way crash on Highway 65.
Now, a local business making T-shirts to support 20-year-old Cooper Roy, and his family has been overrun with orders from the community.
On Tuesday night, life for the Roy family changed after they received a call that their son, Cooper, had been involved in a serious accident
“When people come together like that and support someone, we are going to understand the other side of it,” Mickie Roy, Cooper’s mother said.
According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, 79-year-old Harold Williams was driving southbound on Highway 65 in the northbound lanes, just five miles north of Springfield, when he hit Roy head on.
Mickie also said there were a few women who stopped at the scene of the accident that night and she felt as they were an instrumental part in keeping Cooper alive.
Brian Roy is Cooper’s father. He said Cooper was returning home from a Church conference in Kansas City.