Mother talks from her hospital bed following a wrong-way crash on highway

From her Colorado hospital bed at St. Anthony’s Medical Campus in Lakewood, Shannon Ouimet is reflecting on the moment that changed her life.

“That day I did think I was going to die,” said Ouimet. “I have a fractured knee and I have a fractured L2 lumbar in my spine, so I had to get surgery yesterday.”

CBS Colorado sat down with the Littleton mother of two and her family, two days after Ouimet and her 7-year-old son, Grayson, were struck in her car by a wrong-way driver on Highway 285…

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