It’s been almost six months because the Putman household tragically misplaced three family in a lethal crash and Blake Putman can nonetheless recall the accident as if it occurred yesterday.
“I keep in mind all the factor,” Blake, 37, who was driving the automotive when it was struck by a semi-truck in September 2025, instructed Individuals on Friday, March 13. “I keep in mind the automotive hitting us. I keep in mind being on the highway. I keep in mind numerous scenes contained in the car.”
The Meet the Putmans star recalled, “He hit my door, and the way God allowed me to be the place I’m as we speak, I’m probably not certain.”
Blake was driving one in every of three vehicles carrying the Putman household — who gained fame whereas starring on TLC’s Meet the Putmans in 2017 — as they headed house from watching Blake’s 15-year-old son Noah play soccer. Tragedy struck after they had been about one mile from their home in Caro, Michigan, on September 26, 2025.
The Putman household is sharing an replace on their injured family after a number of members of the family had been concerned in a deadly automotive accident. “We wished to share an replace and proceed asking for prayers for Noah, Gia and our total household,” a press release shared through the household’s Rising Up Putmans Instagram account learn on Wednesday, October (…)
Blake’s car was transporting eight members of the family, together with his dad and mom, Invoice “Papa” Putman and Barb “Neenee” Putmanhis spouse, Megan PutmanBlake and Megan’s son Noah and daughters Lulu, 13, and Alena, 11. Blake’s brother Brandon Putman’s daughter Gia, 11, was additionally within the automotive when the semi-truck collided with it.
Papa and Neenee, who had been each 65, died within the crash, as did Blake’s spouse, Megan, who was 37.
“Megan had her arms round me when he hit us, and my dad was sleeping,” Blake recalled on Friday. “My mother and pop and Megan, they died on the scene. The post-mortem stated that they had been instantly gone. There was no saving them.”
Blake, for his half, stated he suffered a “couple damaged bones” in his neck in addition to a damaged nostril and a few lacerations.
The Putman Household in January 2026.
Courtesy of Rising Up Putman/InstagramBrandon, 39, and his spouse, Kacie Putmanhad been in one of many different two vehicles when the accident performed out in entrance of them. (Blake, Brandon and their different two siblings, Billy and Blairall stay in a single home with their spouses and kids. Their late dad and mom additionally lived with them previous to their deaths.)
“There’s just one factor that might come out of my mouth, and it was, ‘Pricey God, save my youngsters,’” Kacie instructed Individuals. “He did that. He saved each one in every of our youngsters.”
Whereas all 4 youngsters within the struck car did survive, they sustained accidents. Lulu had a pelvic fracture and Alena suffered a clavicle fracture. Noah and Gia had traumatic mind accidents.
“I keep in mind pulling Noah out of the automotive, and I didn’t suppose he’d be the identical as he’s,” Brandon defined of his nephew. “The best way he’s bounced again and is stronger in virtually each aspect than he was earlier than in a brief period of time is superb. Gia, the identical factor.”
Noah spent two weeks within the ICU and underwent two months in rehab, however the household stated he’s now again in school, enjoying soccer and wrestling.
Gia has had a tougher highway after being airlifted to the hospital to endure emergency surgical procedure, which her father, Brandon, stated saved her life.
“If she would’ve glided by ambulance, she wouldn’t have made it,” Brandon revealed. “Her spleen went via her diaphragm and up into the left facet of her chest. She broke her clavicle and broke her left humerus, which isn’t very humorous — I acquired to throw a bit bit of father jokes in there — nevertheless it’s a miracle.”
After 10 mind surgical procedures and three months within the hospital, Gia returned house in January, however she nonetheless has a tracheostomy to assist with respiratory. (A tracheostomy is a surgically created opening within the neck that establishes an airway and air flow, in accordance with Mayo Clinic.)
As everybody continues to heal medically, the household stated they’re nonetheless navigating tips on how to emotionally transfer ahead from their losses.
The Putman members of the family have been making a reputation for themselves since starring on TLC’s Meet the Putmans in 2017. The fact sequence adopted the Putman household — Invoice Putman and Barbara Putman, their 4 youngsters, Billy Putman, Brandon Putman, Blake Putman and Blair Putman, their respective spouses and, on the time, 15 grandchildren — (…)
“Megan is my soulmate,” Blake instructed the outlet, noting he nonetheless refers to his late spouse within the current tense. “I keep in mind telling her that I do know that heaven exists, and she or he form of checked out me like, ‘Okay, why are you telling me this?’ We had been holding one another in mattress, and I instructed her, ‘As a result of I can’t love somebody as a lot as I really like you, and this be it.’” (The couple celebrated their 18-year anniversary simply weeks earlier than Megan’s dying.)
Brandon famous that they’ve leaned on one another to get via the powerful season.
“However this household, we circle one another, and when one individual’s weak, we decide them up,” he stated. “God bless my dad for having the imaginative and prescient to carry us collectively like that and to show us these rules to stay by.”
In December 2025, the driving force chargeable for the crash, Pavel Schukin, pleaded no contest to a few counts of a shifting violation inflicting dying, which is a misdemeanor. He was sentenced to 1 12 months and jail and on the sentencing the Putman brothers gave him a Bible and forgave him.
“On the funeral, lots of people got here as much as us, like, ‘Wow. To see the way you guys responded to the driving force by gifting him a Bible and giving him forgiveness, that strengthened my religion,’” Brandon stated on Wednesday. “Properly, the sensation’s mutual. That was our objective after we had our present.”