VIDEO: Colin Kinkelaar is Home

Colin Kinkelaar, the Stewardson-Strasburg High School student seriously injured earlier this year in a crash on his way to school one morning, is home.

That's something many people wondered would ever happen, and something some are terming a miracle.

Colin's crash happened on February 4 when his car ran off a roadway west of the high school, and then hit a guardrail head-on.

Colin, the son of Jeremy and Kelly Kinkelaar and the grandson of Jean and Janice Kinkelaar of Effingham and Ed and Jill Friese of Mode, was taken to HSHS St. John's Hospital in Springfield where he has been a patient for more than a month and has undergone surgeries including the amputation of a portion of one leg.

However, Colin was discharged from St. John's this morning and was brought home today, with a brief trip through the parking lot at the school, where the entire student body at Stew-Stras turned out to welcome him with chants of "COLIN! COLIN" and many wearing camouflage shirts with KINKELAAR on the back. Colin was seated in the passenger seat of a pickup truck and was waving to the students as they made the trip through the parking lot before heading on home.

A police officer who was one of the first on the scene of the crash met Colin's entourage at Shelbyville. The officer said he wouldn't miss this because "it's the closest thing to a miracle I will ever see."