Meet Billy Turner

One warm Friday evening in June 2013, Billy Turner, was heading home from his office in Weatherford, Oklahoma, when he came across a “really bad wreck” on Interstate 40. A mangled Jeep was surrounded by first responders.  A westbound tractor-trailer’s rear trailer axle lost a set of dual tires, which caromed over the median and struck the eastbound 1997 Jeep’s windshield. Inside were four teenagers from Texas. Two died of massive head trauma and two others, a pair of brothers, were hurt, one left in critical condition. The parents of the injured teens were traveling ahead and witnessed the horrific accident in their rear-view mirror. Then they had to wait while the fire department reportedly spent 90 minutes freeing the teens who were trapped within the twisted vehicle's frame. 

“It just seemed like the most horrible thing anybody would ever have to go through,” Turner said, who would soon after devise a device to prevent wheel-off accidents like this from ever happening.