it was huge. it was twisted. i couldn t bend it. they stabilized her and her neck and everything because they didn t know the extent of her injury. as awful as it is to get the call for shawna rhea, it s nothing compared to the call britany s mother has to endure. i was at home and they called me and told me that there had been an accident here and they were getting her out and not to worry. that they would get her out and i lost it. i pretty much couldn t figure out where i was going and what i was doing at the time. i was scared. all i knew is that she was pinned but that she was alive. somehow brittany escapes death despite the truck coming right at her. but the crash leaves its mark. you can see the differences in her knees. and there s bruises here. and i have an incision here and i have one up here. watching the surveillance footage, shawna sees how the accident happens and why brittany s able to survive. what they figure is that the cinder block in the front sl
a chance. she looked up and saw it coming. it happened too fast. march 3rd, 2011, lamas dry cleaners is open for business as usual. store manager, shawna rhea, is out on a delivery when she receives an urgent call. a car had come into the cleaners and hit brittany. all i can remember seeing a big old front of the truck and just glass coming at me. i didn t know britany s condition. so i mean, i got here just as quick as i could. when shawna arrives, she sees the parking lot a disaster zone and a hole where the front of her store used to be. it was chaos. the ambulance people were still with her. they still had her behind the counter. when i got here, she didn t come out from behind the counter for probably ten, 15 minutes.
pulls out, mays attempts to pull in to the parking spot. according to the police report, he went to apply the brakes but accidentally hit the accelerator. he was in the cleaners so fast that it it was scary. mays isn t hurt but is cited for failure to exercise due care. the incident rattles him. once they got him out of the truck which they, you know, had to pull the truck back, and once they got him out of truck, he was walking around and his daughter came to, you know, make sure that he was okay. and mr. mays stayed until they loaded brittany onto the ambulance. he was shook up. i mean, he s an elderly gentleman. and he was shook up. and while the front of the dry cleaners is destroyed, shawna manages to keep lamas cleaners open for business. none of our machines were hurt. we just took out all of our computer equipment and the counter and all of that. you have to come to the back door and i m sorry for that, but we ll take care of you however we can. we re able to go to
march 3, 2011, lamas dry cleaners is open for business as usual. store manager, shawna rhea, is out on a delivery when she receives an urgent call. a car had come into the cleaners and hit brittany. all i can remember seeing a big old front of the truck and just glass coming at me. i didn t know britany s condition. so i mean, i got here just as quick as i could. when shawna arrives, she sees the parking slot a disaster zone and a hole where the front of her store used to be. it was chaos. the ambulance people were still with her. they still had her behind the counter. when i got here, she didn t come out from behind the counter for probably ten, 15 minutes. it was huge. it was twisted. i couldn t bend it. they stabilized her and her neck and everything because they didn t know the extent of her injury. as awful as it is to get the call for shawna rhea, it s nothing compared to the call
britany s mother has to endure. i was at home and they called me and told me that there had been an accident here and they were getting her out and not to worry. that they would get her out and i lost it. i pretty much couldn t figure out where i was going and what i was doing at the time. i was scared. all i knew is that she was pinned but that she was alive. somehow brittany escapes death despite the truck coming right at her. but the crash leaves its mark. you can see the differences in her knees. and there s bruises here. and i have an incision here and i have one up here. watching the surveillance footage, shawna sees how the accident happens and why brittany s able to survive. what they figure is that the cinder block in the front slowed the truck down.