TWO BROTHERS, BOTH LAW ENFORCEMENT, INVOLVED IN SIMILAR ACCIDENTS MONTHS APART

Almost unimaginably, two Wisconsin brothers, both in law enforcement, are lucky to be alive after two separate occassions, months apart, nearly cost them their lives. Deputy Kevin Jonson was responding to an accident on U.S. Highway 45 Thursday morning and, as the first officer at the scene, turned on his lights to warn drivers of what was ahead.

He said he had just taken off his seat belt and was reaching for his door.

"I was just finishing positioning my squad in the first lane when all of a sudden I heard squealing tires," Johnson said. "I happened to look up in my rearview mirror, and I saw a car coming right at me."

His squad car was hit from behind, spun around and hit the cement barrier.

In the flurry of chaos, Johnson said his mind was elsewhere. "(It's) exactly what happened to my brother Jan. 12," Johnson said. Milwaukee County Deputy Tim Johnson was nearly killed in a similar siuation. He was hit by a car and thrown more than 300 feet, head-first into a concrete wall.

After weeks in a coma and months in a hospital, Tim Johnson returned home and today is doing better than anyone expected. If the story weren't amazing enough, there's one more twist: "The squad I was in this morning was the exact squad he (Tim Johnson) was assigned to when he was hit," Kevin Johnson said.

Both deputies reminded drivers to obey Wisconsin's "Move Over" law. When approaching an emergency vehicle, drivers must slow down or move over one full lane.