Honk News (Wisconsin, 2025) – A Wisconsin teenager has lost the ability to walk following a devastating car accident.
The 17-year-old Evelyn “Evey” Laux from Waterford, Wisconsin, was spending time with a friend in a rural part of St. Paul, Neb. on Friday, Jan. 3 when the event occurred.
Connie Laux, Evey’s mother, created a fundraiser where she revealed that her daughter was enjoying a school break in St. Paul when she persuaded her friend to allow her to drive his truck. She stated that Evey “lost control” after making an overcorrection with the steering wheel, which led to the truck rolling over.
Connie observed that although the friend “emerged with minor scratches,” her daughter “was thrown into the backseat and trapped in a contorted position until the incredible rescue workers managed to extricate her from the vehicle using the jaws of life.”
Evey’s parents shared with WISN 12 that they learned about the accident via their daughter’s Apple phone and the Life 360 app, even though they were nine hours away in Wisconsin. They reported that they promptly traveled the 620 miles to reach their daughter, maintaining constant communication with her medical team throughout the journey.
“The neurosurgeon told us that it was not a life-threatening injury, and she was going to be okay, but she was going to be paralyzed, likely as her spine was literally broke in half,” Connie told the outlet.
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The family expressed that, while they are committed to supporting Evey and providing her with positive experiences, they are currently grappling with significant financial challenges.
“We are just starting to learn the gravity of the financial burden that this will bring,” Connie wrote. She explained that — in addition to working less to meet Evey’s high level of care — she and her husband will need to remodel areas of the family’s home to make it wheelchair accessible, purchase a lift to get their daughter in and out of chairs and beds, invest in a stair lift, ramps, wheelchairs and “many more items that I can’t even imagine at this stage.”
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“Evelyn will have to learn how to be independent, but this may require several years of assistance before that can happen,” she added.