'Count Your Blessings, Hug Your Family' -Bret Baier Shares Details from Horrific Car Crash in Emotional Return to Anchor Desk

Tré Goins-Phillips : Jan 23, 2019
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With tears welling up in his eyes, Baier thanked Zach, David and every one of the first responders who assisted him and his family following the car accident.

[Faithwire.com] In an emotional first appearance on Fox News since Bret Baier and his family were in a terrifying car accident, the primetime anchor said he had to be on air "to show you I was OK." (Image: Bret Baier/via Twitter/Faithwire)

Following a weekend ski trip in Montana, Baier, his wife and their two sons were caught in a harrowing car accident on the return trip Monday. Everyone walked away from the crash with minor injuries—a miracle that has the Fox News anchor counting his blessings.

Bret Baier-Tweet:

@BretBaier
Ended the show with this tonight--count your blessings and hug your family. Thank you again to everyone for the support and prayers. @AmyBaier1 and I are very grateful--#SpecialReport

Recounting the crash, Baier said he was driving and was roughly two miles away from the airport when he hit a patch of ice, sending the SUV he and his family were in whirling into a busy intersection.

"We slid into the intersection of a busy road and into the path of a big pickup truck which slammed into our driver's side door, the airbags deployed, the windows shattered," he said. "We careened into a ditch and flipped sideways. And I started to try to push open the passenger door to get us out"... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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