Injured Man’S Future Clouded By Collision ‘The Doctors Say He’S Immortal Or Something’

Things were starting to come together for Scott Charbonneau.

He’d just turned 30, and his Spokane floor-covering installment business was taking off. He and his wife, Dawn, were talking about buying a house.

But everything changed last week when Charbonneau turned his Ford Festiva onto Indian Trail Road in north Spokane.

About 1:40 p.m. on May 26, Charbonneau ran head-on into a car driven by 30-year-old Megan Cameron. Police said Cameron crossed the center line into Charbonneau’s path.

The Festiva was mangled beyond recognition, as was Charbonneau’s head and face, his wife said Monday.

“His face is smashed. His teeth are smashed. Just about everything you can think of is smashed,” she said. He also suffered internal injuries, including bruises and lacerations to his kidneys and liver.

“The doctors say he’s immortal or something,” said Dawn Charbonneau, who married her husband 10 years ago. “He should not be here.”

As it is, the father of two is facing at least a year of painful recovery and has brain injuries that might not fully heal, his wife said.

Cameron, in the meantime, is facing a possible vehicular assault charge. Police traffic officers are still investigating.

The Spokane resident already is awaiting trial on a drunken-driving charge from earlier this year, according to court records.

State Trooper Mark Haas cited Cameron for drunken driving in January on U.S. Highway 195. Haas wrote on the ticket that her blood-alcohol level was over .30, more than three times the legal limit.

Her trial on that charge was postponed four times - the most recent time in April - while she tried to arrange a plea bargain, District Court records state.

A pre-trial conference in that case is currently scheduled for June 16.