ROSWELL, G.A. — It is one sad day after another for the family of Bobbi Kristina Brown. Another family is also requesting prayers for a man who was seriously injured in a wreck with Bobbi Kristina four days before she was found unresponsive in a bathtub.
It was January 27th, around 5 p.m. when Bobbi Kristina was driving west on Holcomb Bridge Rd. when she lost control. She veered into on-coming traffic, striking a car going east. The driver of that car was 41-year-old Russell Eckerman of Marietta. A family spokesman said Thursday that Eckerman remains in a hospital in serious condition and is not able to speak yet.
Eckerman’s brother-in-law, Osse Lessage, was outside a nearby strip mall and heard the collision of the two cars. Lessage ran to help and says Eckerman had no pulse in his neck when he first got there.
“He was bleeding from his head, and he was bleeding from his mouth and ears as well. Yeah, it was terrible,” Lessage said. He says Eckerman’s air bag did not deploy and he could not open the driver-side door because of the damage.
Eckerman started to breathe when Lessage forced the passenger door open and help the slumped over Eckerman into a reclining position. Lessage says after several minutes Eckerman was still not speaking, but did manage to move his right arm.
Lessage says Bobbi Kristina immediately got out of her damaged car screaming. He says she was in shock and kept saying “Oh my gosh, what just happened.”
Roswell police charged Bobbi Kristina initially with failure to maintain lane. There was a women in the car with her, Danyela Bradley, 18, who was also taken to a hospital.
The police incident report lists Bradley as the owner of the car that Bobbi Kristina was driving.
The following Saturday, on January 31, Bobbi Kristina, herself, would be in a hospital, unresponsive. Bobbi Kristina Brown, the 21-year-old daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, was found face-down in the bathtub of her Roswell home. She remains in a medically-induced coma at Emory University Hospital.
