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YouTube stars Marcus and Kristin Johns have spoken out after being seriously injured in a hit-and-run accident. “Me and [Kristin] are okay!” Marcus, 27, shared on Instagram Tuesday night. He describes biking through a residential neighborhood when a driver behind them appeared to purposefully swerve his car towards and, ultimately, hit them. Kristin, 24, told …
YouTube stars Marcus and Kristin Johns have spoken out after being seriously injured in a hit-and-run accident.
“Me and [Kristin] are okay!” Marcus, 27, shared on Instagram Tuesday night. He describes biking through a residential neighborhood when a driver behind them appeared to purposefully swerve his car towards and, ultimately, hit them.
Kristin, 24, told Marcus — who says he blacked out before impact until arriving at the hospital — that the two “flew about 50 feet from the impact.” In her own post, she describes their injuries, saying her femur was “snapped in half” and her husband’s leg broken. They both underwent surgery for their injuries.
Marcus makes reference to “robbery and police pursuit” being “officially confirmed,” but the details of the accident remain unclear.
Meanwhile, he said, “Me and Kris got to see each other briefly today before going into our surgery and I am so glad she is safe.” Surviving the accident, he said, “was nothing short of a miracle.
Marcus –- who had a small role in 2004’s “The Punisher” — attained influencer fame first on Vine, where he was one of the top five most-followed creators on the platform. After Vine’s demise, he switched to YouTube and, in 2017, married Kristin. The pair maintain an eponymous shared channel in addition to their personal ones.
The YouTube community has been wracked by a series of tragedies recently. One of the platform’s popular creators, Steve Cash, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at 40 in April, and it was revealed Monday that another prominent personality, Corey LaBarrie, was killed in a car accident Sunday after celebrating his 25th birthday.
