A Cudahy woman says a routine drive home from nursing school turned into one of the scariest moments of her life after her car hit a heat-buckled stretch of pavement Tuesday on the northbound I-41 exit ramp to College Avenue.
Twenty-one-year-old Alexis Ayala said she was about 10 minutes from home when her vehicle struck the raised pavement.
“I’ve always thought maybe there would be a fender bender, not me flying into the air and going nose down,” Ayala said. “It felt so unreal.”
Ayala, who is 24 weeks pregnant, said she drove herself to a Milwaukee hospital before being transferred by ambulance to Ascension All Saints Hospital in Racine…