A pregnant North Carolina woman is lucky to be alive after she
survived a horrific highway crash that split her car in half, authorities said.
Haley Smith, 20, of
Lincolnton, walked away with minor cuts from the wreck Wednesday that police
say may have been caused by her speeding over 100 miles per hour, the Lincoln
Herald reported Friday.
The expectant mother’s
Honda Accord was almost cleanly torn in two, with one part resting on the
northbound side of U.S. 321 in Gaston County — about 30 miles northwest of
Charlotte, N.C. — and the other spiraling across the median on the southbound
side.
“That’s one of the
worst wrecks that I’ve ever responded to,” responding Lincolnton firefighter
Mike Shrum told local reporters.
Smith’s car flipped
after she ran off the road and crossed the median, the North Carolina State
Highway Patrol told the Lincoln Herald.
An SUV in the
southbound lane plowed into her Honda, tearing it just behind the driver’s
seat.
Thanks to God!