The mum of a teenage boy killed when a beach sand hole collapsed says she knows "he's with Jesus and smiling down on us" in a tribute to her son.
Levi Caverly, 18, from Union in Maine, was on a family day out to the beach when he and his 17-year-old sister decided to dig a 10-ft-deep hole.
Tragically, while Levi was standing in the hole it caved in on itself and crushed the 18-year-old to death.
Levi's sister - who was buried up to her neck - miraculously survived and was well enough to drive them back home, according to NJ.com.
Speaking of the tragedy, Levi's mum Angela said: “It is what it is. You can’t change it.
“Physically, my daughter is OK. She’s helping drive us home right now.
"He [Levi] was trying to learn computer coding, self-taught.
"He loved music and was playing drums in a praise band at our church. We did home school and [2021] was his last year.”
Angela - a devout Baptist and regular at church - wrote on Facebook that she's finding comfort in her faith and love for the people who tried to rescue her boy.
She told NJ Advance Media today: “We had lots of people trying to help and we’re very grateful for that.
“We know he’s with Jesus and smiling down on us.”
The siblings spent hours digging on Tom River's Ocean Beach on Tuesday with their frisbees before the tragedy in the afternoon.
It comes just days after a young man who lost half of his body in a horrific construction accident bravely spoke about his recovery.
Loren Schauers, 20, lost his legs and right forearm two years ago.
The former labourer from Great Falls in Montana, USA was involved in a freak accident in September 2019 while working with a forklift on a bridge.
After traffic forced him to get too close to the edge, he fell 50ft and was crushed by the forklift - severing his forearm and crushing his lower body.
Doctors then performed an emergency hemicorperectomy on him, meaning everything below his waist was amputated in order to save his life.
Last month in the UK, a man in his twenties died in a freak accident after climbing into a hammock and a wall collapsed on him.
The family of James Douglas, 28, were left "heartbroken" after a garden pillar collapsed onto him at his family home and he died at the scene.
James, a property developer, arrived back from work at around tea time on Good Friday (April 15) and climbed into the hammock at the home in Tunstall Village Green, Sunderland, the Sun reports.
But by 5.30pm, his family had called the emergency services after the garden pillar, which had been standing for 15 years, fell on top of him.
