The real Superman

He flew through the air over 100 feet and landed in a nurse’s yard. He saves lives. Sorry Clark Kent, Dewayne Morgan is Superman.

His story begins like this: Morgan was riding his motorcycle around 3 p.m near Booneville, Miss. on that fateful afternoon.  He looked ahead and saw a car swerve into his lane. He had a moment to react. He almost made it.

But he didn’t.

His motorcycle impacted against the drunk driver’s front fender at 50 mph in a horrible crash.  His arm went through the motorcycle’s windshield, shattering both. He then flew through the air, landing in a broken mass in a yard.  Over 200 bones were broken in his upper body. His leg was nearly severed. And so was his arm. He nearly bled to death on the side of the road. Fate stepped in and he just happened to land in a nurse’s yard.  And luckily, the helicopter ambulance was only five minutes away.

Months of rehab and over million dollars in hospital bills later (neither Morgan or the drunk driver had insurance), Morgan beat the odds. (His doctors gave him a 2% chance of survival.) The hospital settled on his bills and his church family helped him pay them off.  He is now piecing his life back together.

A woman made a choice. She chose to drink and get behind the wheel of her car.  That choice destroyed her life (she is in prison) and her family’s. It forever altered Morgan’s and his family’s, too. He lost his leg.  He faced a crushing debt. He went through painful rehab. But his spirit remains intact.

Morgan made a choice as well. He isn’t allowing the drunk driver’s bad choice to ruin him. He is now making sweet lemonade out of a pretty sour lemon by touring the state as part of  the Department of Public Safety’s Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign. Like he said, “If one person decides not to drink and drive after hearing my story, this is all worth it.”

Dewayne Morgan is a hero. He is a man of steel. He truly is Superman.