Driver turns grief and guilt into kid's book

By: David Leonard

Tampa, Florida -- Bayshore Boulevard is a beautiful drive for the thousands who make it every day, but it is a dark reminder for Gable Yerrid.

In August 2003, his SUV slammed into a car where Swann and Bayshore intersect. The crash killed Nancy Christine White Bradley, a nurse and mother, as she tried to make an illegal turn.

Yerrid had a broken leg, a head injury and a civil citation for unlawful speed involving death. Bradley's husband and young daughter received an undisclosed sum in a settlement with Yerrid's family.

"Nothing could even be called serious after that. I didn't know what to do, I was lost," said Yerrid, whose family says turned increasingly withdrawn.

"His journaling was his way of dealing some of that pain," said his mother Vee Yerrid.

"If I had emotions coming up, I would go to my pen and paper and start going at it. Sometimes I couldn't read it, sometimes it didn't make any sense," said Gable.

Out of that pain he wrote a story for his newborn brother about a monkey named Marley who finds a bunch of bananas and tries to horde them for himself.

"I made a story for him. Something he could take a lesson from and sharing is one of the most important lessons," he said.

With his parents help, Yerrid found an illustrator to bring Marley to life. They found a publisher who has brought Marley's Treasure to bookshelves.

Through the book, Yerrid says he is able to open up and hopes, like Marley, others learn the importance of sharing.