As you get ready to celebrate the New Year with family and friends, a teen who survived a near-fatal car crash is sharing her story while law enforcement reminds you to never drink and drive.
18-year-old Olivia Wiggins is a living reminder of the consequences when people aren’t responsible behind the wheel.
“I was extremely lucky, and like we say, I had angels watching over me to be that lucky,” Wiggins said.
Wiggins had just rung in the New Year for 2023. She was driving home from her friends when a drunk driver was coming her way on a one-way street.
She swerved to get out of the way and hit a tree.
“A broken collarbone, fractures in my skull and my face, punctured lungs,” said Wiggins.
ABC Action News first met the teen back in May as she was getting ready to graduate high school after her long recovery: she was in a medically induced coma for three weeks and in the hospital for about three months.
“You don’t want to be hit by a drunk driver, so don’t be that drunk driver that hits somebody else,” she said.