We’ve all probably done it at some point in our lives. A quick text to a friend to let them know we’re on the way, or an “I love you” response to Mom just because.
It seems so harmless and commonplace at the time, but as Joyce Osborne knows, just one text can be lethal.
At 1:08 a.m. on February 12, 2016, her son, Thomas Anthony Kohn, was taken away from her and his three children all because of one “mundane” text to a friend.
“Thomas was in the middle of typing a text when he exited the roadway going 75 miles per hour,” Joyce shared with Love What Matters. “He then struck a [guardrail] end cap and continued on until the front end struck a large granite boulder. His truck became airborne, slid across the westbound lanes of I-10, indicted by the fuel trail, and landed on the driver’s side facing south, and blocked westbound travel lanes. The undercarriage of the truck sustained extensive contact damage. At some point this truck caught fire and was fully engulfed.”
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Thomas’ body was burnt so badly beyond recognition that it had to be cremated. After the heartbroken mother was able to process what had actually happened over the next several days, she had all these nagging questions that just needed to be answered.
One of them: What WAS that final text that was SO important it cost her son his life?