A COUPLE mourning the deaths of two of soldier Gregg Stone and his sister Jennie have suffered further agony after their eldest son was injured in a crash. Jamie Stone, 32, was rushed to hospital with a broken shoulder and a broken nose after his family's Ford Focus skidded and crashed into a ditch near Hornsea during a storm.
His partner, Carla, 36, and children Emily, four months and Tayer, ten, escaped with cuts and bruises.
Jamie's mother Angie, who lives with husband Bob in Atwick, near Hornsea, said: "It feels like we have been cursed. It was like déjà vu when I had the phone call from Bob telling me Jamie had been involved in a car crash."Bob and Angie's daughter, Jennie, 28, died in a car crash at Fraisthorpe, near Bridlington, in February. Only eight months before, in June last year, their soldier son, Private Gregg Stone, 20, was shot dead during a rescue mission in Afghanistan.
Paramedics were called to the crash in Seaton Road, Hornsea, shortly after 8pm on Friday by a passerby. No other vehicle was involved.
Angie said: "Jamie and Carla had gone to collect Tayer, who is his daughter from a previous relationship, from her home in Hornsea. They were going back to Leeds, where they live, when the car hit some water and aquaplaned, before ending up nose-down in a ditch."
Former soldier Jamie suffered a shoulder injury and a broken nose but managed to scramble out of the wreckage to free Carla and the children, said Angie, a manager at a Hornsea bookmakers.
She said her son had battled to keep the car on the road after it hit water during a torrential downpour.
She said: "It all happened so quickly, but Jamie told me he had remembered his dad's advice about what to do if your car ever starts to aquaplane. So he didn't jam on the brakes, but steered into the skid, it seemed to work but then a split-second later, the car hit more water and the back of the car spun round, before ending up in the ditch.
"It is a miracle none of them were killed."
Paramedics gave Jamie gas and air and were able to "pop" the shoulder, which was dislocated, back into place.
He was taken by ambulance to Hull Royal Infirmary with Tayer.
An X-ray later showed the shoulder bone was broken.
Carla and baby Emily were taken to the same hospital in another ambulance.
Angie said: "Jamie's first call was to his dad – he said he knew Dad would know what to do.
"Another driver had rang for an ambulance. Bob called me and went straight out there. He came home soaked through."
Jamie and his family were discharged from hospital early on Saturday and are now recovering at home.
"Doctors at Leeds General Infirmary have told him they cannot operate until next Thursday," said Angie.
"They are going to have to pin and plate the shoulder bone."
Jamie, who spent three years in The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire, had hoped to join other family members at his brother Kallum's pass-out parade at Infantry Training Centre, Catterick, in North Yorkshire.
Kallum, 19, intends to follow in his brothers' footsteps and join The Yorkshire Regiment, an infantry unit.
It is unlikely Jamie will be able to attend.
Bob said: "Painful as the injury is for Jamie, it doesn't compare to not being able to see his brother pass out.
"It's just sheer relief. We thank God he has not taken any of them this time. It's hard enough coping with our losses."
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