Adrian Colbert’s life went hurtling in a new direction the day he rode his bike down a service road in Wichita Falls, Texas and crossed in front of an oncoming car.
Colbert, 9 years old at the time, went through the windshield with such force he broke the car’s steering wheel. The impact left him with a fractured nose, collarbone, shoulder blade and ankle, and he was flown 80 miles to a hospital in Dallas.
It left his father, Adrian Colbert Sr., just as battered.
Adrian Sr. declined to go into detail about how he grew up on the troubled lower east side of Wichita Falls and what he did for a living, but it wasn’t good.