KUTV 2news

This is the story that Channel 2 news did on my brother. he was interviewed by a great reporter. Thank you Stella!


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(KUTV) SALT LAKE CITY – Curtis Howard and his wife are thankful to be alive after a cop car chase led to the suspect vehicle being vaulted through the air and crashing into the couple and their 18-month-old niece Sunday.

The couple was in the front yard of their home near 251 E. Downington Ave in Salt Lake Sunday morning when a 20-year-old man was speeding away from officers when his car crashed into a tree – causing it fly through the air into their yard and hit the family’s vehicle.

“I don't remember hearing the screeching. Next thing I know is my wife's screaming, got her hand on my head, I have my feet up in the air and I'm on the front steps of the porch,” Curtis Howard told 2News from a hospital bed at the University Hospital Sunday night.

The suspect crashed into other cars and a tree and eventually hit them as they were getting into a car.

“I was in the Corolla that got hit,” said Curtis’ wife Shannon. “I was buckling in the car seat and just hit my head.”

A fractured scapula, seven staples in the head, other scratches bumps and bruises -- although not injuries to ignore -- with time will heal.

The couple hopes and prays the same will happen with the stage four colon cancer that has invaded Curtis' body.

“I have one more week of radiation and chemotherapy. And then I have a break for two months before surgery,” he said.

But in another six months, there will be another batch of chemo.

Curtis says his strength comes from his family, wanting to see his 5-year-old son grow up, and praying for more children with his wife.

“I’m trying to figure out what lesson we're learning here,” Shannon said. “I mean everything happens for a reason.”

“I think it was Lance Armstrong who said either give up or fight like hell,” Curtis said.