Two vehicles collided this afternoon at 4:45 at the corner of First Street and Slaughter Lane, police and paramedics immediately responded to the scene, arriving at 4:55.
"We arrived on the scene to find two cars that seemed to have collided, drivers of both cars were already out of their cars, Mr. Jingleheimer-Smith was unconscious when we arrived on the scene," said paramedic Johnathan Stacey.
One of the cars, a 1948 Studebaker, was being driven by 13-year-old Roger Clementine, who was cited for driving without a license and driving in the wrong lane. Clementine was taken to the hospital and treated for minor cuts to his face, and then released.
"I am so, so sorry," said Clementine. "I just wanted to take Uncle Bob's car out for a spin, and I wasn't paying attention. I didn't think I would hit anybody."
John Jacob Jingleheimer-Smith, the driver of the second car, a 1989 Yugo Firebelcher, was taken to the hospital to be treated for a severe head injury and is still in critical condition.
"I was just going down Slaughter, I must've only been going 5, 10 miles an hour, when I see this other car drift into our lane," said Jingleheimer-Smith. "He slammed into the front of the car, and my head hit the dashboard."
Jingleheimer-Smith's wife, Melba, was also in the car with him at the time. She was treated for a bloody nose and released.
"I don't remember much, I think I was doing some last minute touches on my makeup, we were heading to a party, and I just looked up and saw the other car," said Melba. "We started spinning out of control. When we finally spun to a stop, I immediately got out of the car, and saw that it was totally destroyed. I was crushed because that is gonna cost us a ton of cash to replace."
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