Teenage Survivor Recalls Being Visited by Chris Stapleton After Losing Three Generations of Her Family in a Tragic Car Wreck

Alex Moffett, an Erie, Colorado native and Montana State student lost three generations of her family in a tragic car accident earlier this year. Moffett, her father, and her younger sister were visiting her grandmother before going to a Chris Stapleton concert. Their family outing was cut short when another driver, asleep at the wheel hit their car. Later, as she recovered in the hospital, Stapleton came to visit her.

Recently, Moffett sat down with a Kansas City-based Fox affiliate to talk about her tragic loss, the long road to recovery, and meeting Stapleton in the hospital. The Moffett family traveled from Colorado to Overland Park, Kansas to visit their grandmother before going to see Stapleton in concert. “My grandma was taking us to Warrensburg because she grew up there, so she just wanted to show us around,” Moffett recalled.

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While on the outing, a 16-year-old driver fell asleep at the wheel, left the road, went airborne, and struck the family’s SUV. Moffett’s father and grandmother died at the scene. She and her sister were airlifted to a hospital where the younger teen later died.

Moffett suffered a punctured lung and had to have facial reconstruction surgery, elbow replacement, and wrist surgery. While recovering at Research Medical Center, she got a sweet surprise.

Survivor of Tragic Wreck Recalls Meeting Chris Stapleton

One of Alex Moffett’s surgeons was able to get in touch with Chris Stapleton and tell him the tragic story. They arranged a brief meeting between the two. “We were supposed to just have a Facetime with him and they called and were like, ‘We are in really bad service, we’ll call you back in a few minutes,” she recalled. “Like a minute later, we got a knock on my door and they just came in,” she added.

Stapleton’s visit fell on Father’s Day, which was likely an especially hard day for the grieving teen. He sat with her and sang “Traveller” for her. He wrote the song after his own father’s death.

Alex Moffett is recovering at home in Erie, Colorado with her mother. She plans to return to Montana State next semester. A GoFundMe has been created to help with medical bills.

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