Help! The Organ Family was Hit by a Drunk Driver!!

Daniel Gilbert is organizing this fundraiser on behalf of Nicole Organ.

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The Organ family needs your help!! My name is Daniel and on Sunday, July 26th, 2020 my sister Nicole, her husband Rob, and their two children, my niece (8) and my nephew (6), were involved in a fatal car accident on the way home from a socially distanced dinner at our Mom’s house. At about 7:45 pm, they headed home, a drive that usually takes 7 minutes. When they were at the cross streets of Oberon Rd and Estes St, a suspected intoxicated man and his female passenger traveling on the opposite side of the road swerved into oncoming traffic striking the family. Rob was able to slightly turn at the last minute and the brunt of the impact was the front and driver side. All were taken to the hospital immediately, except the female passenger of the other car who was pronounced dead at the scene.

Nicole suffered a broken collar bone which will likely need surgery in the coming week. Rob, who was driving, suffered a broken femur, a broken foot (which by doctors words, was unrecognizable as a foot), and a broken radius and ulna. My niece witnessed the driver tell the deceased women to get up multiple times and suffered a compounding fracture in her spine (L5), which causes her pain but is not serious, and my nephew was lucky to walk away with a couple seat belt bruises and a bloody nose. Rob had surgery for 7 hours on July 27th and underwent 3 more hours the next day with more to come. The Organs don’t like to ask for help but they will absolutely need it. In the coming months they will be facing many hardships including the sheer trauma caused by the crash, the pain of the injuries and rehabilitation, therapy for the family, countless hospital bills, lost wages and opportunities, and another car when they are healed enough to drive. Both heads of the family have been incapacitated, they have no way to get to many appointments, they can’t help each other physically and this has uprooted our whole family’s life in so many ways but we are dedicated to trying to make their amazing family whole as best we can. By donating and sharing you will be doing exactly that. We know times are very hard for everyone and we want you to know how much we appreciate all of you. Anything and everything helps even if it’s just a share or kind words.

I will post updates constantly on the family’s recovery and the upcoming trial. We are in contact with a public information officer who said there will be a publication of the accident soon so I will post a link when we have it. We’ve also been told that the police are planning on charging the man with one count of vehicular homicide and three counts of vehicular assault but it may take a year or two to see it through. They have already been so grateful for the outpouring support they have received from family, friends, and acquaintances. Please share this link and help us help the Organs. They are kind, intelligent, empathetic, caring good people and they did nothing to deserve this.