I moved into my dorm room on August 4, 2018. I am an RA for this coming school year so I had to move in early for training. After saying goodbye to my mom and her boyfriend, Brian, and watching them drive away I was filled with a sense of excitement and anxiousness for the week to come. Only hours later did I receive a call that changed many lives. Jacob, Brian's son was killed in a motorcycle accident.
Shock. That is all I could feel. This had to be a dream. A nightmare.
He hadn't even had the bike for a month and this tragedy was something that blindsided us all.
We don't know all the details as of yet because it occurred on August 4 and the coroner's office isn't open on the weekend but here is what I do know. It wasn't his fault. I want to get that out of the way first and foremost. He was driving when a 83-year-old man made a U-turn which caused the collision. Jacob was thrown from the bike, which then caught on fire. We are unsure if he died on impact or if he suffered long but he did die on the scene.
I was never very close to Jacob but in the past couple of months, he had started to come around more and it wouldn't be a surprise to find him at the bowling alley with my family. He had made some mistakes in his youth, who hasn't, but he was turning his life around. He was about to apply for trade school and he was living with his girlfriend of two years.
Now all of it is gone.
In the days prior to the accident his father told my mom and I different stories of Jacob's childhood and I can't help but feel happy that I got to hear them, because I know now that this horrible accident has happened it will be a while until we are able to tell stories without tears in our eyes.
It is sad to think that just hours prior Jacob had been at my house walking my dog for us while I was being moved in. I wish that we could turn back time and tell him to stay there. I wish that he wasn't gone. I wish that the old man had stopped driving, or at least followed the rules of the road. I wish that we all had a chance to say goodbye one last time. I wish that this had never happened.
Jacob, you will be missed.
