A 31-year-old man from Dearborn Heights is still in the intensive care unit after being badly hurt by a driver who is thought to be drunk.
Around 3:45 a.m. on Sunday, Mehdi Kadour, also known as Mo, was driving home from his job as an MRI technician at Garden City Hospital when security video caught another car going through a stop sign and a do not enter sign and crashing into Kadour’s car.
The young woman who was driving the car that caused the accident is thought to have been drunk.
That breaks my heart, said Kadour’s cousin Talia Atat. “He didn’t even have time to see her coming or respond.
Since the crash, Kadour has needed multiple blood transfusions because of damage to his head, body, and ribs.
“Anyone who knew him knows how kind he is and how caring, and it’s just crazy how the innocent lives are always the ones paying the price of these careless drivers,” said Atat.
Police in Dearborn Heights think the woman driver who caused the accident was drunk, but they are waiting for the results of a blood test to be sure. Charges are coming soon.
“The drivers that cause the accident get to live and move on, and he’s literally fighting for his life, and it’s probably going to be a while to get back to how he was,” said Atat.
The crash spot has seen too many of these kinds of accidents. Janice Love, who lives nearby and was woken up by the crash, said this wasn’t the first major accident in the area.
“I came out here, and the car, the rear end was out here,” he said.
Love told them that another car crashed through the same fence and hit their house last year.
“I don’t even enjoy sitting out here anymore, you never know if a car is going to come in,” he said.
For Kadour’s family, the accident shows how terrible the results can be when drivers aren’t careful.
“I just really hope that people who see this, whether they drink or not, will be more careful on the roads and not even drive.” People can always use Uber or call a friend who can drive. “It’s never worth the price of a life,” Atat said.
