Driver Who Survived Airborne Crash After Vaulting Off Truck Ramp Says 'Nobody Expected Me to Make It'

The woman who was captured on video in adramatic airborne crashin Georgia last month is grateful to be alive.

Bruton, of Tallahassee, Fla., was driving along Highway 84 on May 24 when a Lowndes County Sheriff’s Deputy, who was responding to a separate accident across the highway, caught her crash on his body cam.

As to how she ended up driving up the tow truck’s ramp, Bruton claimed that the truck was “actually in the road."

According to the Georgia Department of Public Safety, she was charged with “driving while unlicensed and use of seatbelts in passenger vehicles.”

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“I’m just grateful that throughout all the surgeries, I’m still here, and able to see another day,” she told the outlet. “Nobody expected me to make it. Not even my family. They didn’t expect me to make it at all.”

source: people.com