Longtime cheer coach of teen killed in Dixie Highway crash: She lit up the room Share Updated: 6:33 PM EST Mar 2, 2021 Alex Suckow Share Updated: 6:33 PM EST Mar 2, 2021
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Show Transcript TO HELP THE FAMILY. GLADYS: DIXIE HIGHWAY LOOKS VE DIFFERENT RIGHT NOW THAN IT DID YESTERDAY, WHEN A DRIVER HEADING THE WRONG WAY RAN HEAD-ON INTO THE CAR 17-YEAR-OLD MADELYNN TROUTT WAS DRIVING. I KIND OF WISH IT WAS ME, NOT HER. SHE WAS ONLY 17. GLADYS: MOTHER OF FOR JOANNE HUMPHREY SAYS NOTHING COULD HAVE PREPARED HER FOR WHAT SHE SAW MONDAY EVENING AS SHE WAS LEAVING WORK AT AUTO ZONE ON DIXIE HIGHWAY. A TRUCK WENT FLYING BY AND HIT THE CAR WENT OVER INTO THE , NEXT LANE AND HIT HER HEAD ON. SO I IMMEDIATELY BACKED UP AND GOT OUT AND RAN OVER THERE. IT LOOKED LIKE THE ENGINE WAS ALMOST IN HER LAP GLADYS: 17-YEAR-OLD MEDLEN SHOP WAS IN THE CAR. HUMPHREY SAYS WHAT SHE SAW NEXT WERE DESPERATE ATTEMPTS TO SAVE THE TEEN’S LIFE.
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