"Restored Truth" Podcaster Chandler David Hendry Killed in Car Accident

[InCognitus]

KSL carried this story yesterday:

Religious podcaster dies in Lehi multi-vehicle crash

"Chandler David Hendry, 27, was the sole victim of a three-vehicle crash that happened at 8:25 a.m., Lehi police spokesperson Jeanteil Livingston said. The crash happened at the intersection of Timpanogos Highway and Morning Vista road."

"Hendry was the founder of the Restored Truth podcast, which explores interfaith dialog, scripture, Christian history and the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ, according to a Restored Truth YouTube video."

This is his YouTube channel:   https://www.youtube.com/@RESTORED_TRUTH/shorts

And the community section is mourning his loss:   https://www.youtube.com/@RESTORED_TRUTH/community

This is sad news.

 

Edited Monday at 03:26 PM by InCognitus

[Pyreaux]

You know know a man let his light so shine for all when the world seems darker now without him in it. I don't feel bad for him, I'm sure he's fine, but I feel bad for those of us left behind.

Edited Tuesday at 12:48 AM by Pyreaux

[bluebell]

It’s sad that the death was so senseless. A stupid driving mistake and then him making a stupid choice not to wear his seatbelt. Such a blessing that the people that he hit weren’t more seriously impacted.

It’s a huge loss for his family and loved ones

[Stargazer]

He was apparently driving to attend the FAIR Conference when the accident occurred. FAIR released the following:

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FAIR is deeply saddened by the tragic passing of Chandler “Chuck” Hendry, host of Restored Truth.

Chandler joined us at the FAIR Conference this past week, and on Thursday we had the privilege of spending time with him as he met with FAIR and fellow podcasters. His unexpected passing the following morning, as he returned to the FAIR conference, has left us shocked and heartbroken.

Chandler was a passionate defender of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. Through Restored Truth and his other efforts, he willingly entered difficult conversations, answered challenging questions, and sought to strengthen faith in Jesus Christ and His restored Church. We are grateful for his voice, his courage, and the contribution he made to the Latter-day Saint community.

Our hearts and prayers are especially with Chandler’s family and friends, as well as the many people who came to know and appreciate him through Restored Truth. We mourn with all who loved him and pray that they will feel the peace and comfort of the Savior during this time of profound loss.

We are grateful that Chandler chose to spend some of his final days among friends and fellow believers at the FAIR Conference. We will remember him with gratitude and affection.

— FAIR

 

[InCognitus]

1 minute ago, Stargazer said:

He was apparently driving to attend the FAIR Conference when the accident occurred.

I was wondering about that.  Thanks for posting that.

[InCognitus]

15 minutes ago, bluebell said:

It’s sad that the death was so senseless. A stupid driving mistake and then him making a stupid choice not to wear his seatbelt. Such a blessing that the people that he hit weren’t more seriously impacted.

It’s a huge loss for his family and loved ones

It makes me wonder if there was a medical issue or some other major distraction.  The seatbelt choice was dumb which didn't help, but zooming right through a red light?  I know it can happen, but it seems odd to me for someone that young.

[bluebell]

9 minutes ago, InCognitus said:

It makes me wonder if there was a medical issue or some other major distraction.  The seatbelt choice was dumb which didn't help, but zooming right through a red light?  I know it can happen, but it seems odd to me for someone that young.

I don’t know where you live, but in Utah it’s actually pretty common.  People push the timing of the yellow light way too long and end up going through when it’s already red.  But, there could’ve been a medical emergency.

[Notatbm]

I went to IG and checked out some of his posts. He has several posted of him driving while recording and not wearing his seat belt. A lesson to us all about distracted driving.

I’m just glad he didn’t kill anyone by blowing a red light. Seems like he was a pretty good guy and fairly popular although I had never heard of him. RIP

[Stargazer]

32 minutes ago, Notatbm said:

I went to IG and checked out some of his posts. He has several posted of him driving while recording and not wearing his seat belt. A lesson to us all about distracted driving.

I’m just glad he didn’t kill anyone by blowing a red light. Seems like he was a pretty good guy and fairly popular although I had never heard of him. RIP

I was not aware of his name, and when it was reported I was like "Who?" It wasn't until I found out that he was behind the YouTube channel "RestoredTruth" that I made the connection. 

Not being a big IG user, I only know him from his YouTube channel, where he would post livestream debates with people about the Church. 

[InCognitus]

12 minutes ago, Stargazer said:

I was not aware of his name, and when it was reported I was like "Who?" It wasn't until I found out that he was behind the YouTube channel "RestoredTruth" that I made the connection. 

Not being a big IG user, I only know him from his YouTube channel, where he would post livestream debates with people about the Church. 

Same here.  I had to look up the RestoredTruth channel to learn who he was, and I recognized him instantly once I did that.

[InCognitus]

1 hour ago, bluebell said:

I don’t know where you live, but in Utah it’s actually pretty common.  People push the timing of the yellow light way too long and end up going through when it’s already red.  But, there could’ve been a medical emergency.

I live in Utah now (I used to live in Arizona), and one thing that keeps popping up on my YouTube feed suggestion is the Utah "Collision Cam" channel.  It's really scary to watch it.  They have monthly compilations.  Distracted driving is a serious issue, not just in Utah.  But I think the road designs lend to more serious crashes because of speed and visibility and odd intersection configurations.

[Calm]

6 hours ago, Stargazer said:

He was apparently driving to attend the FAIR Conference when the accident occurred. FAIR released the following:

 

I can’t attend conferences anymore (and haven’t been keeping up with list discussions this summer as finding it hard to concentrate these days), but this places it in a context that makes it very immediate for me.  

Edited yesterday at 01:40 AM by Calm

[Calm]

4 hours ago, InCognitus said:

I live in Utah now (I used to live in Arizona), and one thing that keeps popping up on my YouTube feed suggestion is the Utah "Collision Cam" channel.  It's really scary to watch it.  They have monthly compilations.  Distracted driving is a serious issue, not just in Utah.  But I think the road designs lend to more serious crashes because of speed and visibility and odd intersection configurations.

I think there has been some foolish road design choices myself.  

[Calm]

7 hours ago, bluebell said:

I don’t know where you live, but in Utah it’s actually pretty common.  People push the timing of the yellow light way too long and end up going through when it’s already red.  But, there could’ve been a medical emergency.

Yeah, we had a problem two days ago trying to turn while the car oncoming just zoomed through the yellow (I live in south of Provo for newbies).  Dangerous.  Thankfully my husband was paying more attention to the cars than the light at that point…actually that happened the day before as well.  My husband was very verbal the previous day.  Daughter was in the car the second day and she is very sensitive to anger/frustration when driving, so he kept it in his head that time.  We have cured him of speeding up, tailgating, and flashing lights as that could cause an accident itself.  I am okay with one or two honks and some verbal abuse, but she had a few episodes with her dad as a kid, so he has to be extra cool with her.

My husband born and raised in Utah Valley.  Drivers and sports are the only things he expresses anger with.  Otherwise very mellow and gentle.  I have not been impressed with Utah drivers over the years, but maybe my experience with Grandma driving down from SLC biased me.

Edited yesterday at 02:31 AM by Calm

[Calm]

6 hours ago, Notatbm said:

He has several posted of him driving while recording

People who record while driving….I just don’t get it.  Besides the urge to look at the phone instead of the road, even if one is looking at the road, one is actively thinking about something else.  And if one has a script one has in mind, that’s can get to neglecting the road.

Just casually talking while driving, responding to someone is not as intense of a focus and that can still cause accidents (not saying no one should talk or listen to audiobooks, that’s not going to happen and isn’t necessary and can even help stay alert; just stay aware of how involved you are getting).  My not appreciated lifelong headaches were caused by an accident when my grandmother drove off the freeway and hit a ditch when I was 13 because she turned to talk to my siblings in the backseat.  I am alive or at least not with a face full of scars because of my seatbelt, but the dashboard was hard enough.   And kids apparently didn’t used to get whiplash.

I learned early to view cars as lethal weapons.  Still get images of what might have been without that seatbelt.  Not pretty. 
 

What a tragedy. 

Edited yesterday at 02:38 AM by Calm

[Stargazer]

12 hours ago, Calm said:

I learned early to view cars as lethal weapons.

When I got my drivers license my dad said to me: "You now have a license to kill." He was of course referring to the danger to self and others in regards to bad driving. But of course, you know me, I had to argue with him. "It's not a license to kill!" I replied. "A license gives permission do a thing that would otherwise be illegal." 

Blah, blah, blah. Yes I knew what he meant, but couldn't just let him have the point.

[bluebell]

14 hours ago, Calm said:

Yeah, we had a problem two days ago trying to turn while the car oncoming just zoomed through the yellow (I live in south of Provo for newbies).  Dangerous.  Thankfully my husband was paying more attention to the cars than the light at that point…actually that happened the day before as well.  My husband was very verbal the previous day.  Daughter was in the car the second day and she is very sensitive to anger/frustration when driving, so he kept it in his head that time.  We have cured him of speeding up, tailgating, and flashing lights as that could cause an accident itself.  I am okay with one or two honks and some verbal abuse, but she had a few episodes with her dad as a kid, so he has to be extra cool with her.

My husband born and raised in Utah Valley.  Drivers and sports are the only things he expresses anger with.  Otherwise very mellow and gentle.  I have not been impressed with Utah drivers over the years, but maybe my experience with Grandma driving down from SLC biased me.

Every year it seems like Utah drivers are ranked worst in the nation and it's just weird.  They aren't just aggressive and reckless, they are mean!  They would rather you both die in a fiery crash than let you merge sometimes.  

One thing that I think causes some problems is the length of the yellow lights.  They are really long, trying to get through as many people as possible I'm guessing, but it gives people a false sense of security I think.   When people see one but are still a ways away from the intersection they often still continue at their regular speed or even start to go faster.  I have been guilty of that myself.

Wyoming (with much much less traffic) has really short yellow lights and when we first moved back we were constantly running red lights because we were still in the mindset of a yellow light meaning to speed up so you can get through, not prepare to stop.  

[Stargazer]

14 hours ago, Calm said:

Still get images of what might have been without that seatbelt.

I had a very scary experience that taught me to always wear a seatbelt. It was in 1979 when I was in the Army at Ft. Lewis. I was driving my Ford Pinto on post, alone on a totally clear road. I decided to change the station on the radio I was listening to. I reached over, started twiddling with the radio dial. Something made me look up, and there stopped in the road was another car I had not seen, about to make a left turn. There was no time to slam on the brakes -- or so it seemed. By reflex I got both hands on the steering wheel and zagged around him off the road (there was no curb). Completely zonked out, I drove just a bit further to a gas station, pulled in, and had a quiet panic attack. I had not been wearing a seatbelt. If I had hit him at the speed limit, 30 mph, I probably would have died. 

From then on I never, ever, never failed to put on my seatbelt.

A number of years later I was driving up to the Seattle Temple, and an older brother in my ward was going to be traveling with me. He got into my car, and I waited for him to put on his seatbelt. He didn't. I asked him about it, and he said the stupidest thing I could imagine in this circustance, which was he didn't believe in them, and if we had an accident he would prefer to be "thrown clear" of the wreck, not trapped inside. I told him that if he didn't wear a seatbelt in my car, he could find another ride, or walk. He grumpily did so. 

[Stargazer]

15 hours ago, Calm said:

I can’t attend conferences anymore (and haven’t been keeping up with list discussions this summer as finding it hard to concentrate these days), but this places it in a context that makes it very immediate for me.  

I'm sad to hear that you can't attend! I would have loved to attend myself, but it isn't quite worth an 8 hour airplane ride. 

For the past few years I've bought the streaming pass to the conference, but I was not able to remember to watch them live. Add to that handicap the fact that I'm 7 hours ahead of it, and some of the talks happen very late for me here in the UK. But this year I made myself remember to watch at least a couple of them live. So I watched Dan Peterson live for the first time in my life! 

I do have to say that the streaming was very well done this year. In some prior years it was difficult to access, and there were technical issues with the audio. But this year was excellent.

 

Edited 20 hours ago by Stargazer

[Calm]

4 hours ago, Stargazer said:

I had a very scary experience that taught me to always wear a seatbelt. It was in 1979 when I was in the Army at Ft. Lewis. I was driving my Ford Pinto on post, alone on a totally clear road. I decided to change the station on the radio I was listening to. I reached over, started twiddling with the radio dial. Something made me look up, and there stopped in the road was another car I had not seen, about to make a left turn. There was no time to slam on the brakes -- or so it seemed. By reflex I got both hands on the steering wheel and zagged around him off the road (there was no curb). Completely zonked out, I drove just a bit further to a gas station, pulled in, and had a quiet panic attack. I had not been wearing a seatbelt. If I had hit him at the speed limit, 30 mph, I probably would have died. 

From then on I never, ever, never failed to put on my seatbelt.

A number of years later I was driving up to the Seattle Temple, and an older brother in my ward was going to be traveling with me. He got into my car, and I waited for him to put on his seatbelt. He didn't. I asked him about it, and he said the stupidest thing I could imagine in this circustance, which was he didn't believe in them, and if we had an accident he would prefer to be "thrown clear" of the wreck, not trapped inside. I told him that if he didn't wear a seatbelt in my car, he could find another ride, or walk. He grumpily did so. 

Back when we lived in Kansas, my husband attended a very tragic funeral of a three year old.  Everyone else was strapped in but her.  She was dancing and laughing in the backseat seat having a blast and entertaining everyone.  Mom was only going ten miles an hour due to slow traffic but a car crossed the line, also not going that fast, and there was a head on (obviously not a full one, more corners hitting iirc).   I think the combined speed was only 20, 25 mph.  The kid just got jerked in the wrong way and snapped her neck.  You can just never really predict when it’s going to get dangerous.  Keep those seatbelts on and kids in their car seats.  

Edited 16 hours ago by Calm

[bluebell]

3 hours ago, Stargazer said:

I had a very scary experience that taught me to always wear a seatbelt. It was in 1979 when I was in the Army at Ft. Lewis. I was driving my Ford Pinto on post, alone on a totally clear road. I decided to change the station on the radio I was listening to. I reached over, started twiddling with the radio dial. Something made me look up, and there stopped in the road was another car I had not seen, about to make a left turn. There was no time to slam on the brakes -- or so it seemed. By reflex I got both hands on the steering wheel and zagged around him off the road (there was no curb). Completely zonked out, I drove just a bit further to a gas station, pulled in, and had a quiet panic attack. I had not been wearing a seatbelt. If I had hit him at the speed limit, 30 mph, I probably would have died. 

From then on I never, ever, never failed to put on my seatbelt.

A number of years later I was driving up to the Seattle Temple, and an older brother in my ward was going to be traveling with me. He got into my car, and I waited for him to put on his seatbelt. He didn't. I asked him about it, and he said the stupidest thing I could imagine in this circustance, which was he didn't believe in them, and if we had an accident he would prefer to be "thrown clear" of the wreck, not trapped inside. I told him that if he didn't wear a seatbelt in my car, he could find another ride, or walk. He grumpily did so. 

That was a smart thing to say as his body would become a projectile capable of seriously injuring or killing any passengers in a bad wreck.

I don’t understand the no seatbelt thing either. I’ve known three people who died or were forever disabled as teens in wrecks the otherwise would have probably walked away from.

And any adult who doesn’t wear a seatbelt in a car with kids is missing some brain cells. 

[Calm]

3 hours ago, Stargazer said:

do have to say that the streaming was very well done this year. In some prior years it was difficult to access, and there were technical issues with the audio. But this year was excellent

I will pass this on.  They put a lot of work into trying to get this to work well each year.  I am sure they will be happy that the result this year showed that effort.  

[Calm]

23 minutes ago, bluebell said:

on’t understand the no seatbelt thing either

There are ways to make it comfortable.  I have a pad that wraps around where it hits my neck.  Used to get irritations there and was constantly pulling on it. Don’t even notice it anymore.  
 

This is just an example, not specifically recommending it.

https://www.amazon.com/Universal-Comfortable-Backpack-Shoulder-Automotive/dp/B0C6DTT5MJ/

[Devobah]

He was in my ward in college for a bit. Stand up guy. I only wish he made the right decision to just wear a seatbelt and pay attention. May he rest with the Lord.