Now a young woman, but at the time just sweet sixteen, she experienced a severe head injury, now she lives with the painful results of one man's carelessness that he has long forgotten.  In 1978, a drunk driver turned left in front of the car she was riding in leaving two car lengths to stop from an 80 plus mile per hour skid. It was a "high speed, head on auto accident" and the impact was dead stop from a high rate of speed.  It is referred as dead stop impact because it means that there was no push involved before the vehicle stopped meaning it produces the same effect as running into a wall made of steel.  There was no give except for the car in which one is riding.  In these kind of accidents there is usually at least one fatality.

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At the scene her heart, and other vital organs had stopped completely.  *** St. Pt.  (Return here for the rest of the scene story, this is difficult)

 three times for short durations; fortunately she did get her second chance at life.  It did not come until after the third try at being revived where she could only come back as far as a state of coma.  While she lay in coma, her family was told, "She is not expected to live through the night," "Prepare your family for her death it is not likely that she will come out of coma".

Traumatized nearly as bad as she was, her family was in shock by how bad she appeared after her injuries.  It was a high speed, head on auto accident and the impact was called "dead stop impact" from a high rate of speed.  It is referred "dead stop impact" because it means that there was no push involved before the vehicle stopped meaning it produces the same effect as running into a wall made of steel.  There was no give except for the car in which she was riding.  In these kind of accidents there is usually at least one fatality.