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Motorcycle Accident | Wienermobile to take North Texas motorcycle accident victim to prom

FORT WORTH - It's common for accident victims to have no memory of what happened. Ben Ross is not so fortunate.

He remembers riding his motorcycle on March 19 in North Richland Hills and can't forget trying to avoid two cars that pulled out in front of him.

"So, I just locked up my brakes, flipped over," he said.

He became trapped under a truck.

"I remember them pulling me out from underneath the truck and putting me on the stretcher," he said.

Ben was taken by CareFlite to a Fort Worth hospital. His ribs, collarbone and hips were broken.

"He's got an enormous wound that requires this wound V.A.C. machine," said Jill Ross, Ben's mother.

In the hours by his bedside that followed, his mother thought about his first 17 years of life. She smiled at the memory of when at 4-years-old, he saw the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile.

"We pulled up and his eyes got huge and he wanted to stay for an hour," she said.

As a child, Ben played with Wienermobile toy cars. Recently, he joked about pulling up to prom in the Wienermobile. It was that joke that in her anxiety and sadness, Jill latched onto.

"It kept me from entertaining thoughts about how things could go," she said.

She launched an e-mail, Facebook and letter-writing campaign to convince Oscar Mayer to send the giant hot-dogged shaped car to take Ben and his girlfriend to prom on April 30. Jill and Mike Ross hoped it would lift the spirits of their son who used to lift theirs.

"He's the class clown and he's the prankster," his father said.

Hundreds of messages later it paid off.

"On April 30, we'll be pulling up in the world famous Wienermobile," said the voice that called to tell Ben of the news.

Despite a fever and heavy medication, Ben smiled.

"Awesome," he replied.

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