A member of the Van-Far Ambulance Crew that was involved in a deadly Fourth of July crash got to finally go home this week.

Jason Bostic, Troy, was released from the Rusk Rehabilitation Hospital in Columbia on Tuesday, Aug. 8, and was met by a large group of co-workers, family and friends for the occasion.

Leslie Dahl, Farber, was also in the ambulance with Bostic and suffered extensive injuries. She was also there for Bostic’s release and is happy for her co-worker but it will be a few weeks at the least before she can be released.

Dahl told the Ledger she broke both legs and all of her ribs among other injuries sustained. Despite her condition, Dahl was in good spirits and joking with co-workers.

Bostic got to travel back home with his wife and was accompanied by the Van-Far ambulance crew and a state trooper and several greetings along the way. Callaway County Fire and Ambulance was near Kingdom City to greet Bostic.

When the procession arrived in Mexico the Mexico Public Safety Department and the Audrain County Sheriff's Department helped block traffic at the Highway 54 turnoff while Audrain County Ambulance had to trucks on the overpass. When they arrived at the Community R-6 turn Martinsburg Fire and Little Dixie Fire were there. The same was true going through Farber and Vandalia where both units had trucks staged and Roberts had a flag hanging off the boom at the four-way. The same survival flight crew that transported Bostic to the hospital after the accident hovered over the procession.

The two were traveling back from Hannibal after dropping off a patient when their ambulance was hit head-on Fourth of July evening. The person driving the other vehicle died at the scene.