The “House of Lafond” influencer family was injured after a hit and run car accident.
“I saw a car in the rear-view mirror coming toward us at full speed,” patriarch Hashim Lafond told ABC7 on Thursday, April 16, revealing that a vehicle recently crashed into their 12-passenger van on the freeway. “Imagine you’re sitting there and all the cars are just coming toward you, swerving.”
Hashim was in the van with his wife, Johnetta Lafond, and their eight kids.
“All of a sudden, I hear and feel a boom, and then we just start spinning,” Johnetta, who gave birth to baby No. 8 late last month, told the outlet. “We have a 12-passenger van. That’s not something small to be spinning around in.”
The Lafonds’ vehicle crashed into the highway median, which smashed the windows.
“I had a thought of, ‘Did I survive that? I’m pinching myself, like, is this real?’” Hashim recalled, adding that his family did not sustain any serious injuries or break any bones. Most of their injuries just involved soreness.
According to ABC7, a few of Hashim and Johnetta’s kids went to dance class that same evening after first responders offered aid on the scene.
“I was thinking, like, ‘Should I go?’” daughter Anaiah, 11, told the outlet. “My neck hurt really bad. It hurt to turn it.”
The California Highway Patrol is currently investigating the incident and attempting to locate the driver, who fled the scene upon impact.
“You couldn’t check on us to make sure we were OK?” Johnetta added, wondering why the driver left at the time.
Hashim and Johnetta have nearly 500,000 followers on TikTok, where they chronicle their daily life as a big family. They welcomed baby No. 8, daughter Yirah Aviah, in late March.
“Our baby was born prematurely, weighing 5 pounds 3 ounces. She had to go to the NICU because her blood sugar level was at 15,” Johnetta wrote via TikTok on March 25. “I stayed in the NICU and literally nursed her back to health. Not an hour went by without skin to skin or breast-feeding. Thank God she started to gain weight and was cleared to go home.”
She continued, “When I couldn’t be there for her, my husband held her close. When I say a love like this, I mean a love that makes the world seem calm when things like this happen.”
Johnetta, Hashim and baby Yirah were discharged from a local hospital after a few days.
“Watching my husband do the ‘HOT DAD WALK’ for the eighth time,” the family matriarch gushed via TikTok on March 30, alongside footage of Hashim carrying Yirah’s baby carrier. “It never disappoints.”
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