What Happened?

As most everybody knows, my Dad, David Van Voorhis was in a serious car accident very early Sunday (Father's Day) morning on his way to a call at the hospital.  It was a single car accident in which it is suspected that he swerved to miss something in the road and lost control of his truck just around the corner from his destination on Palm north of Bandini.
His vehicle went up the embankment on the right hand side, smashing the drivers side into a palm tree before flipping and rolling back across Palm into oncoming traffic lanes.  There were no witnesses, however, my Grandfather, Dirk, and I were able to locate the scene of the accident and retrace the path of the accident.  Somebody came upon the accident shortly after it occured and called 911.
He was brought to the Emergency Room at Riverside Community Hospital and from what we are told, he was conscious when he arrived and was pretty mad that he had been in an accident.
We had plans for later that morning, my three daughters and I were going to take he and my Grandfather out to breakfast for Fathers Day.  One of his friends and coworkers said he had been very excited about our breakfast date earlier that night when they worked together on another call.
He suffered multiple trauma including a punctured and collapsed lung, a horrible skull fracture that extended to most of the bones on the left side of his face.  His four left lower teeth were knocked out and at least one or two molars were cracked.  His left scapula (shoulder) and left humerous (upper arm) were broken, his left hip is cracked, his left femur (upper leg) had an open fracture, his left tibia and fibia (lower leg bones) were broken in two places.  His right wrist and ankle were broken and his sternum was fractured as well.  He has so many lacerations that we couldn't begin to count them, and most of them seem to be on the left side of his face.
Fortunately, his internal organs didn't suffer any damage.  He was wearing his seatbelt, which most definately saved his life.  His brain has suffered some trauma, but it's limited to a couple of bleeds that are not life threatening at this time, a lot of bruising and some swelling which is normal for the type of trauma he has had.
He is currently in a medically induced coma under very heavy sedation.  He is on a ventilator and had to have a trach inserted through his throat because they can't have a tube through his mouth now that his jaw is wired closed.  They do not plan to allow him to wake up until Friday or Saturday at this point.
He was taken into surgery Sunday morning around 10 am where they were able to reconstruct his facial bones to the best of their ability at the time.  They had to wire his jaw closed so that they could use his mandible (lower jaw bone) as a foundation to support and build the rest of his face upon.  His maxilla (upper jaw) was broken in several places as was his left cheek bone.  They were able to reconstruct the pieces of his cheek bone, but his occipital (eye socket) bone was beyond repair.  His surgeon compared that bone to 'potato chips' and said once it was smashed, there was no putting it back together.  So, a titanium plate was put in to replace his occipital bone. 
His plastic surgeon prepared us for the probability that he will have a couple of more facial surgeries, but that he had to wait for the swelling to go down before he would be able to see where things were sitting and if he was going to have vision problems with his left eye.  Fortunately, even with all of the trauma surrounding his eye, his actual eye ball remained in tact and undamages so far as they can tell right now.
They also put an external immobilizer on his left leg to keep the pressure off of the break and stabilize his leg.  His arm and wrist were also splinted and immobilized during his surgery.  The surgery lasted about four hours and once he was finished, he was taken to the ICU where he will stay for at least two weeks.  They inserted an internal monitor in his brain so that they could monitor the pressure on his brain constantly without having to bring him out of sedation to asses him and take him down for CAT Scans every couple of hours so he is able to remain heavily sedated around the clock.
From what we were told, none of his injuries alone were life threatening, however, the amount of trauma he has suffered combined was life threatening.  The good news is that he has made it through the first 72 hours without infection or blood clots and everyday he seems to look better.  A lot of the swelling has subsided, and for the most part, his vital signs are staying stable.
One of us, either Linda, myself, Joyce (my Grandmother and his Mother), Dirk, or Lindsay (my Aunt and his Sister) are by his bedside during every waking hour.  All of us appreciate all of your love, support, prayers, and positive healing energy.  It means so much to us that everybody is so concerned and being so wonderful.
We will continue to post daily updates and news so that we can all follow his progress.