She's not sitting at home, she's at the hospital taking care of her son. If your kid was hurt would you want to leave him alone in the ICU with a bunch of strangers, in and out of consciousness, terrified, confused, in pain? No, of course not, that would be horrible for a kid. It was an accident, there were no drugs or alcohol involved. Both parents were uninjured, both kids in critical condition. The driver (her husband) is considered at fault as there were no other known factors to cause the collision.
As I explained, I'm not saying this should be law or mandatory, I'm saying its the right thing to do for a company who claims to be there for their employees to keep paying their salary during a leave of absence in a case like this. That's all. And it is certainly something they would have done, and have done, in the past.
The vehicle was airborne and perpendicular to the road, mid-flip, when it hit a telephone pole flush with the roof, directly over the rear passenger compartment, giving both kids head injuries and broken necks/backs. You can see in the picture here how there is a perfect imprint of a telephone pole in the rear of the vehicle. This was a mazda hatchback of some kind. Everyone had seatbelts on.
