Household of Teen Brothers Injured in ‘Nightmare’ Crash Converse Out

A highschool senior from Minnesota is in important situation following a crash that additionally injured his youthful brother. Per week after the accident, their household is hoping for the perfect.

On Wednesday, April 9, round 9:00 p.m. native time, Blayke Mostad, 17, was driving his 15-year-old brother Braxton and their 19-year-old good friend in Milaca once they had been concerned in a collision with a wrong-way driver, the Sherburne County Sheriff’s Workplace informed native outlet Deliver Me The Information.

A Minnesota State Patrol trooper, who was responding to the crash, was not capable of decelerate in time to keep away from the automobiles, inflicting one other collision, reported CBS affiliate WCOO-TV. The 2 crashes resulted in 5 folks getting injured, the Minnesota State Patrol stated in a press release — 4 with non-life-threatening accidents, together with Braxton, and one, Blayke, with important wounds.

The Minnesota State Patrol stated the Sherburne County Sheriff’s Workplace is investigating the incident.

Baylie Lesnick, Braxton and Blayke’s sister, tells PEOPLE that her two brothers and their good friend had been okay after the preliminary accident and received “out of the automotive to test on the opposite driver.” She claims each boys’ accidents had been sustained within the second crash, involving the State Patrol trooper.

The Sheriff’s Division, which didn’t instantly reply to PEOPLE’s request for remark, stated that “investigators are analyzing the likelihood that a number of the occupants of the automobiles concerned within the T-bone had been exterior of their automobiles when the second collision occurred,” based on KSTP.

“Each of those boys love their household and their associates with their complete coronary heart,” Lesnick says, including, “It actually exhibits how liked they’re with the quantity of assist we’ve got obtained.”

Members of the family say Blayke stays in important situation and has undergone various surgical procedures.

“He’s received extreme mind injury, spinal twine injury, his legs are crushed,” Blayke’s aunt Kris Reiman informed KTSP. “Just about all the things in his physique is damaged.”

His sister tells PEOPLE Braxton is the “most caring soul” she’s ever met. “Braxton took the shirt off his again after the preliminary accident to wipe the blood off of his good friend’s face,” Lesnick provides.

In keeping with a GoFundMe arrange on behalf of the household, Braxton — who was not too long ago launched from the hospital, based on Deliver Me the Information — sustained a ruptured eye, facial laceration and a torn ACL within the crash.

Lesnick has stood by Blayke as he continues to recuperate within the hospital. The 17-year-old “has energy and bravado operating by way of his bones,” Lesnick tells PEOPLE.

“He’s completely fearless. It does not matter what it’s. That child will show that he can do something,” Lesnick says. “Blayke is a really energetic child, and this accident goes to vary his life without end, which breaks my coronary heart so extremely a lot.”

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In a message shared on the household’s GoFundMe web page, which has raised over $23,000, Lesnick stated this has been a “nightmare” for her household.

“We’re doing our greatest,” she wrote, including that “for the foreseeable future, my household shall be spending nearly all of our time on the hospital ensuring that Blayke has the medical care that he wants.”

“Our household is grateful for any assist that comes our approach. We recognize all of the love & assist that has been proven,” she added. “Please proceed to ship prayers our approach as they’re so desperately wanted.”