A teen hospitalized following a car crash woke up from an induced coma to discover that his parents had been killed in a separate collision on their way to visit him in the hospital.
KOLR-TV reports that 38-year-old Daniel Hahn, of Springfield, and 37-year-old Loretta Hendrickson, of Lebanon, were headed to University Hospital in Columbia, Missouri, on Friday when another car crossed the center line.
They, along with the couple in the other car, were killed in the head-on crash on a state highway five miles north of Lebanon, authorities said. The
patrol identified them as 36-year-old Arthur Hayes and 35-year-old Crystal Hayes, of Eldridge.
Hahn and Hendrickson's son, 19-year-old Chris Hahn, of Pittsburg, Missouri, had been injured earlier Friday in a head-on collision on U.S. 54 in Camden County.
He suffered a skull fracture in three places, brain swelling and was placed in a medically-induced coma, according to a GoFundMe account started by a coworker on his behalf.
He was released from the hospital on Wednesday, according to an update on the GoFundMe page.
