A 17-year-old said she flew into the air after a car hit her on Alpharetta Highway in Roswell last week.
Tyra Rankin had just gotten off a MARTA bus Nov. 14 when she started across the highway, according to the Roswell police report. She later told police she saw a car in the middle of the road, but she had no time to get out of the way before being struck.
“I seen him swerve and I got scared because I was like I think he’s trying to hit me,” Rankin told Channel 2 Action News. “I just seen my death happen. He hit me and I flipped over the car.”
Jenese Hood, 19, witnessed the incident and told police she helped her friend to a nearby Shell station and called Rankin’s mother, Alicia, to pick them up.
The mother took her daughter to WellStar North Fulton Hospital, where X-rays showed no broken bones and no bruises. So Tyra Rankin was released the same night.
“I’m thankful my daughter was able to be thrown up in the air and back down without a crack in her body,” Alicia Rankin told Channel 2. “It’s only by God’s grace and mercy that brought her through.”
Police are still looking for any information that might lead them to the driver.
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