It’s been one month since a Plano family had their lives turned upside down on a drive home from a New Year\u2019s Eve celebration.<\/p>\n
Dallas Police say it was a drunk driver who hit the family along U.S. 75, leaving an 8-year-old boy in critical condition.<\/p>\n
From Children\u2019s Medical Center, the family shared a video of 8-year-old Said Abbasova playing soccer. It\u2019s a seemingly simple moment that now feels like a future ripped away, Abbosova now an amputee.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel pretty sad about my leg, because I can’t walk with my friends. I can’t walk anywhere. I can’t go to school, and pretty much that’s it,\u201d said the 8-year-old.<\/p>\n
It was at about 1 a.m., just an hour into the New Year, when witnesses told Dallas Police they saw Michael McCrae weaving through traffic and swerving dangerously along northbound Central Expressway near Royal Lane.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomeone hit us, and the car flipped three times,\u201d said Said\u2019s mom, Rukhsara Abbasova.<\/p>\n
Abbasova said that\u2019s when the world went black.<\/p>\n
When she came to, strangers had pulled her and her daughter from the wreckage. Her husband had climbed through a broken window.<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw my daughter, I saw my husband, but I didn’t see my son. When I noticed that I can’t find my son, I started to look around and saw that about 20 meters from us and many people, and I started to run there,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Family said that, despite a seatbelt, Said was ejected through the car\u2019s rear windshield.<\/p>\n
EMTs rushed him to Children\u2019s, but it was too late to save his leg, which was severed below the knee.<\/p>\n
Police arrested McCrae for intoxication assault with a vehicle and resisting arrest.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom January one, time stopped for us, for our family. I don’t feel anything. I don’t feel what is the weather outside, what is the date of today, what is the day of week today. I don’t know, because every time it’s him, he needs the care,\u201d said Abbasova.<\/p>\n
Their community has rallied, raising more than $110,000 to help cover the bills from multiple surgeries, therapy, a wheelchair and eventually prosthetics for a growing boy now facing an uncertain future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s been one month since a Plano family had their lives turned upside down on a drive home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[102,160,162,161],"class_list":["post-148609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-dallas","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}