After a catastrophic car crash, Will Boggs lay in a hospital bed clinging to life. Doctors said he couldn’t survive. He proved them wrong.
It took a full thirty minutes to cut 15-year-old Will Boggs out of the twisted metal and broken glass that had, moments before, been his family car. Will, who had been sitting in the back seat, received the full impact of the 18-wheeler that t-boned them going 65 miles an hour.
The Accident
Will Boggs describes the day of the accident in a post on the Living Waters Ministry website. It was the spring of 2005 when Will, his mother, and his sister were on their way to their grandparents’ house for spring break. It was a dark, rainy, windy day, and visibility was poor. After stopping at a fruit stand, his sister Casey, who was driving, pulled back out onto the highway. She looked both ways and saw a truck driver motioning her onto the road. She slowly pulled back onto the highway—and was hit by an 18-wheeler going full speed.
Will’s mother, Mrs. Boggs, describes the moments after the impact in a video about Will’s story, saying everything became surreal.
“It was a miracle anybody was alive.”
Mrs. Boggs recalls that when she came to, she could feel her daughter’s presence but that she could not feel her son. When she slowly turned her head to look behind her, all she saw was Will sitting in the back seat, covered with blood.
Will spoke to The Epoch Times, recounting the details of the day that changed his life forever.
“Nineteen years ago, I was in a very bad car accident, and a tractor-trailer hit our vehicle right where I was sitting … They weren’t able to find any vitals when the paramedics arrived, and I was declared a fatality.”
With no vital signs, Will was immediately airlifted to a nearby trauma center, where he was given oxygen, and his heart was shocked back into beating. He was alive but barely clinging to life and in a coma.
Due to diffuse bleeding in his brain and blockages in his carotid artery, he had multiple strokes that paralyzed his left side. Scans of Will’s brain revealed that, as a result of the impact of the accident, his brain had been severed from his brainstem.
The doctors said there was nothing they could do.
By Emma Suttie, D.Ac, AP
