A local judge is reflecting on the fiery crash that could have ended much worse earlier this week after an 18-wheeler crashed into her vehicle and then took off.
State District Judge Lela Mays was driving to work when she was hit by a tractor trailer on the highway.Mays says she has a testimony about Tuesday morning at 6:15 a.m., as she drove on Interstate 20 in southernMays was on the bench Friday, but on Tuesday, she was in a very different place.Good Day traffic reporter Chip Waggoner spoke about the crash the judge was in when an 18-wheeler wheeler veered into her middle lane.
"What you have is a crash that's actually in the eastbound direction and it involves several vehicles, violent in nature," Waggoner said. "First thought was I looked to my right, but there was another 18-wheeler there, so that wasn't an option. I hit my accelerator. I thought maybe I could get ahead of him because he doesn't hear my horn, and so all of a sudden, he hit me and when he hit me, because I had hit my accelerator, I go all the way around the front of his truck, where he is now pushing me," Mays recalled.
The car was badly damaged and started burning, but she didn't know that because the airbag had deployed and the hood was up. "Gentleman came to my window and said, ‘Ma'am you’ve got to get out, your car is on fire.’ Well I try to get out and the door doesn't open, window doesn't go down, and so he went to my back seat and said, ‘Hey, get out this way.’ I said I can’t get out, then he says push your seat back," she recalled. "I push my seat back, I am able to get out.
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