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Teen remembers tips from judge during car crash Date published: 12/30/2007
RELATED:Teen drivers always at risk
BY ELLEN BILTZ When 17-year-old Angel Johnson left her house Dec. 7, she noticed the roads were unexpectedly slippery as the fallen rain quickly turned to ice. So she took it slow back to her home in the Chancellor area after dropping her little brother off at elementary school. The teenager hadn't been driving long, but she was being as cautious as possible for the sake of herself and her 16-year-old sister--whom she made sit in the back seat just in case. But as she traveled back to her Spotsylvania County home, a truck slid into the back of her car, pushing it head-on into oncoming traffic. The blur of the cars as she slid across the icy road didn't keep her from remembering the advice she had received from her mother and Judge Joseph Ellis: Don't slam on your brakes, veer away from other cars, stay as calm as possible, the impact will be twice your speed. As she slid into the ditch, a telephone pole fell onto the car's roof, cracking it in half. Johnson couldn't feel her legs, and her epileptic sister was having a seizure in the back seat. Johnson said she immediately turned to her sister and saw her bleeding. "I thought I had killed her, and I was flipping out," she said. Both teens ended up with fairly minor injuries, none permanent, their mom said. They were in one of the more than 80 accidents in the Fredericksburg area that day, most caused by the icy roads. "Thank God they were wearing their seat belts," said their mother, Kimberley Jelinek. It was one more thing they had done right. And Jelinek attributes their safety to the precautions her daughter took. "You hear so many negative things, especially about teen drivers. It's nice to finally have a story where it ended well," she said. Judge Ellis, who presides over the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court in Spotsylvania, said he worries about teen drivers. That's why he spends so much time talking to them before he hands over the small piece of plastic that can change the life of a 16-year-old, sometimes for the worse.
Yeah I know Angel and knowing what her life is like, sometimes
you just gotta run chores and take siblings with you no matter
what. Stuff happens.
This post is for What Do You Think of the story ,not what you think of what i wrote, don't worry about my post ,read the story ,than make your own comment, free country write
about the story .
Its life Jerry2...no matter if you're 17 or 47....if someone rear-ends you in to oncoming traffic...then you have an accident. I was driving to Kings Dominion on a regular basis w/ a car full of friends when I was 16....big deal.....I guess you didn't get to drive until you turned 21. :-) Anywho...get off your morale's soapbox.
Peace
good they are safe ,but she drop off her little bro, got her 16 year old sister in car and she is 17, a new driver at that, what wrong with this picture
I agree. I got an A in driver's education back in 1975, and what I learned there is invaluable. Too many teens take chances, and I am glad Ms. Blitz gave us common sense ways of handling bad situations. I drive in my part time job, and all i can add is don't drive in ice if you can at all avoid it. Snow melts, ice just builds up on the roads, wait until it melts.
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