When she woke up in the hospital, Jae Morgan tells PEOPLE she remembers asking “Is my baby okay?” before learning he wasn’t going to make it
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- On Oct. 26, 2025, Jae Morgan, then 22 weeks pregnant, was driving back home from work when a vehicle struck her car in Milwaukee
- “I remember just lights coming at me, but I thought that they were on the other side of the barrier,”she tells PEOPLE
- It was in the hospital when Morgan learned that her baby on the way wasn’t going to survive — and before she could deliver him, his heart had to stop beating
A Milwaukee mother is still picking up the pieces after a head-on car collision four months ago that killed her unborn child and left her with serious injuries.
“It’s a blessing that I’m still here,” Jae Morgan, 33, tells PEOPLE. “I feel like in that accident, that [other driver] took some sense of my strength. I just am fighting every day for that back because I want my kids to know that I am going to be here to protect them.”
According to the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office, a deputy on freeway patrol was driving around 4:24 a.m. local time on Oct. 26, 2025, when he was passed by Jorge Alvarez Mathuzima, 39, who was traveling south in the northbound lanes…