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Crash horrors live on.
Byline: Robert PeRez
Jun. 5--Suzan Brownell had a split second to act when she saw the full-size pickup tumbling toward her on Interstate 4. She hit the gas, and the truck missed her SUV by inches. But the driver's body, which had been thrown from the vehicle, exploded through her windshield in a riot of blood, debris and glass. The horrific crash last month didn't injure Brownell physically, but the trauma had an immediate and dramatic impact on her life. Within days, the 40-year-old Deltona resident became overwhelmed by anxiety, unable to focus at work, unable to sleep at night, obsessed with what other drivers were doing on her daily commute along the interstate. "I got behind a big truck, and another big truck came up next to me," she recalled. "I just started freaking out. I realized I was gripping the wheel so hard, and I wasn't breathing." Over and over, she has relived the accident in her mind. And she has cried -- so hard at times it made ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Crash horrors live on.