Kendra L. Wood, a 19-year-old Norborne, Mo., student, is at Liberty Hospital and feeling lucky to be alive today after a speeding train on Saturday afternoon crushed the front end of her Mercury Sable, spun her car and knocked it into a ditch.
“I think we’re just relieved it’s not worse than it was,” Kendra’s sister, Kaylea, 15, said Sunday morning by telephone from the family’s Caroll County home.
Kendra’s parents, Staci and Kenneth, were with their daughter at the hospital Sunday.
Wood's sister provided the following account:
Kendra, was to undergo surgery for a broken left arm and also received a gash over her left eye. Kendra, who is a waitress and an online sophomore at Maple Woods Community College, has little memory of the specifics of the accident, but did not lose consciousness after an eastbound freight hit her car.
The collision occurred at about 4:15 p.m. at a railroad crossing without gates. Kendra was driving after work to visit her boyfriend, Alex Matthews. She stopped at the railroad tracks on County Road 161, eased her car over the first set of tracks and looked west to see if a train was approaching. But the blinding setting sun obscured her view.
As she inched forward, an eastbound Burlington Northern Sante Fe train smashed her car at the front left wheel. Kendra’s boyfriend, who is a first medical responder, heard of the collision on his radio and was one of the first at the scene of his girlfriend’s accident. Kendra has just become an EMT.
LifeFlight Eagle airlifted Kendra to Liberty Hospital, and she expected to return home sometime Monday.
Kendra is the oldest of four children. She has a younger brother, 18, and two younger sisters, 15 and 11.
“Considering she hit a train, it’s really positive,” said Kaylea who was headed to church with her grandparents to pray and give the community an update.
Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/11/14/2430087/norborne-woman-hurt-in-car-train.html#ixzz15MlO8WUA
“I think we’re just relieved it’s not worse than it was,” Kendra’s sister, Kaylea, 15, said Sunday morning by telephone from the family’s Caroll County home.
Kendra’s parents, Staci and Kenneth, were with their daughter at the hospital Sunday.
Wood's sister provided the following account:
Kendra, was to undergo surgery for a broken left arm and also received a gash over her left eye. Kendra, who is a waitress and an online sophomore at Maple Woods Community College, has little memory of the specifics of the accident, but did not lose consciousness after an eastbound freight hit her car.
The collision occurred at about 4:15 p.m. at a railroad crossing without gates. Kendra was driving after work to visit her boyfriend, Alex Matthews. She stopped at the railroad tracks on County Road 161, eased her car over the first set of tracks and looked west to see if a train was approaching. But the blinding setting sun obscured her view.
As she inched forward, an eastbound Burlington Northern Sante Fe train smashed her car at the front left wheel. Kendra’s boyfriend, who is a first medical responder, heard of the collision on his radio and was one of the first at the scene of his girlfriend’s accident. Kendra has just become an EMT.
LifeFlight Eagle airlifted Kendra to Liberty Hospital, and she expected to return home sometime Monday.
Kendra is the oldest of four children. She has a younger brother, 18, and two younger sisters, 15 and 11.
“Considering she hit a train, it’s really positive,” said Kaylea who was headed to church with her grandparents to pray and give the community an update.
Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/11/14/2430087/norborne-woman-hurt-in-car-train.html#ixzz15MlO8WUA
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