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On February 2, 2021, 78-year-old Marjorie Lohman came within inches of losing her life when a big rig 18-wheel tractor-trailer hauling 78,000 pounds of gravel ran a red light in Pickens County, Georgia. Marjorie was the second car in line at the intersection, waiting for the red light to turn green. She had no warning about how another driver’s negligence would very shortly bring her to close to death.

When the light turned green, the car in front of Marjorie’s Ford Escape proceeded through the intersection and turned left.  Marjorie followed. As she neared the middle of the divided highway intersection, the 18-wheeler, coming from her left, smashed into the front of her car. The truck driver never touched his brakes until impact.

At impact, Marjorie’s front end was lifted off the ground and ripped away from the rest of the car. The force of the impact sent her car into a clockwise spin, and after two complete rotations, her SUV came to rest about 100 yards away on the shoulder of the southbound lane. The tractor-trailer traveled across the center grassy median, crossed over both northbound lanes, and went over a ravine before crashing to a stop.  Miraculously, no northbound traffic was hit.

Astonishingly, the entire crash was recorded by the dashcam of a nearby witness, who was stopped at the red light. He happened to have his dash-camera running at the time, and it took in the entire sequence. Marjorie was lucky that immediately after the crash, other motorists stopped to help. She was taken out of her vehicle and life-flighted to a nearby hospital, where she was diagnosed with a badly broken right arm that required surgery. She was severely bruised and shaken but fortunately did not suffer more severe or life-threatening injuries. (Singleton Law Firm LCC)