WILLIS, Texas — For the first time, the Montgomery County man known to many as “The Honey Man” is speaking publicly about the crash that nearly killed him last May.

Mark Simmons, 70, was selling honey from his usual roadside spot along FM 1097 near Lake Conroe when a vehicle slammed into him. He had been resting in a chair against his van when he woke to the sound of two vehicles heading his way.

“I must have had some angels with me, because not that many people get that way and survive it,” Simmons said.

Simmons suffered extensive injuries, including fractures to both sides of his pelvis, a hip replacement, surgeries on both ankles and a knee, and a wrist procedure.

He spent the first three months after the crash in the ICU and has continued rehabilitation at home in Willis, where he

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