A Father's Memorial Message To Son Killed In Truck Accident

Press Release, Sep 11, 2006

Wright City, Okla., — Bill Young, a 65-year-old truck driver, lives with the pain of losing a child.

His son, Doyle, 37, died in a head-on collision with an 18-wheeler in 2004.

Exactly two years have passed since the accident, but for Bill Young the pain lingers.  It is made worse – or maybe better, in a spiritual sense – by a family connection and a desire to help others by speaking out on the dangers of driving sleepy.

It was the early morning of May 19. Doyle Young was driving west on Hwy. 3 from Broken Bow; Larry Young, Doyle's uncle and Bill's brother, had just dropped a load of logs at the Wright City mill and was traveling east on the same highway.

According to Larry, Doyle's white pickup kept veering left into the eastbound lane. Larry kept trying to avoid it.  They collided in the ditch on “Beauty Shop Hill,” just outside Broken Bow. The impact was so hard that it knocked the axle completely out from under the 18-wheeler.

News travels fast among truckers with CB radios. Bill Young was in Naples, Texas, with a load of logs, when he heard Jimmy Alford of Haworth holler that his brother had been in an accident with a white pickup truck. Read more at weyerhaeuser.com