The investigative officer at the scene said he had seen cars wrap around concrete pillars the way Ken’s truck was Sunday night, but he had never seen anyone survive such a crash.
Kenneth Faulkner is a first. The officer told Kenneth he needed to go to church on Monday.
Kenneth had just merged onto Westbound 19th Street in Lubbock at West Loop 289 when his pickup truck was struck from behind by a speeding Chevrolet Camaro. The impact sent Kenneth’s pickup spinning out of control under the Loop overpass about 9:55 p.m. Easter Sunday.
The pickup grazed two overpass support pillars before wrapping around a third one. The green Camaro, though damaged, drove away from the scene. Witnesses at the scene got the license number of the Camaro and police report the 21-year-old driver was escorted by his mother into the police station Monday morning.
Meanwhile, Kenneth, smelling gasoline all around him (he had just filled his tank), managed to extricate himself from the wreck, walk a few feet away, call 9-1-1 and catch an ambulance to Covenant Hospital.
After a few hours of poking, prodding, jabbing, x-rays, CT scans and other testing, doctors gave Kenneth the option of spending the night in the hospital or going home. He had no broken bones, apparently no internal bleeding.
He spent Monday recuperating.