- A Texas Pastor crashed his car into a guardrail after coughing and ‘blacking out’ whilst driving
- Mark McDaniel is now mourning the loss of his 17-year-old daughter and wife of 25 years who died in the crash
- The pastor is comforted knowing his daughter Hannah and wife Brandi are in heaven
The wife and daughter of a Texas pastor died after he crashed their car because he was coughing and ‘blacked out’.
Mark McDaniel, 58, is a pastor at New Hope Community Church in Venus, Texas, where he helps congregants deal with grief and loss.
Last Saturday, McDaniel dealt with his own tragic loss when he was driving his 17-year-old daughter Hannah McDaniel home from a Christian Academy basketball game with his wife Brandi McDaniel, 51.
McDaniel described the moment he suffered from a coughing fit and ended up ‘blacking out’ in the drivers seat.
He lost control of the vehicle, which was carrying his wife of 25 years and their teenage daughter, and ended up plummeting the car into railings on the road.
The wife and daughter of a Texas pastor died after he crashed their car because he was coughing and ‘blacked out’
Mark McDaniel, 58, is a pastor at New Hope Community Church in Venus, Texas, where he helps congregants deal with grieving loss
Last Saturday, McDaniel dealt with his own tragic loss when he was driving his 17-year-old daughter Hannah McDaniel (left) home from a Christian Academy basketball game with his wife Brandi McDaniel, 51
‘I’m still in shock of it all,’ the pastor told WFAA.
‘I was driving and I was overcome by coughing and I blacked out and we hit the guard rail,’ McDaniel explained.
The guard rail went all the way through the car and McDaniel saw his daughter’s body first.
‘I was asking her to wake up and when she didn’t obviously I knew,’ the pastor said – adding that in the moment his ‘heart died’.
Hannah died on impact, while Brandi died later in the ambulance.
The accident happened at 2:30 pm on the I-20 highway in Howard County, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
‘God is there and his love is abounding even in tragedy,’ McDaniel said.
‘My daughter and wife are with the Lord,’ he said. ‘And one day we’ll be reunited.’
He lost control of his vehicle, which was carrying his wife of 25 years and their teenage daughter, and ended up plummeting the car into railings on the road
‘Without there being Heaven, without there being hope, where would people be,’ McDaniel asked
Hannah reportedly loved Taylor Swift, volleyball and Texas A&M – where she had just applied. Brandy ‘loved the lord’ and was passionate about her job teaching autistic school children
‘Well, that’s what I’ve got now,’ he said. ‘Without there being Heaven, without there being hope, where would people be?’
Hannah reportedly loved Taylor Swift, volleyball and Texas A&M – where she had just applied.
Brandy ‘loved the lord,’ according to McDaniel, and was passionate about her job teaching autistic school children.