‘How am I still here?’: Survivor of horrific Edmonton crash speaks about recovery

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a crash in the area of 132nd Avenue and 82nd Street at 4:39 p.m. on Sunday. Investigators believe a man was driving a car west on 132nd Avenue at a high speed it went through a red light and hit another car that was being driven by Delaney’s friend.

Delaney was in the front passenger seat where the impact was felt the most. Her grandson Tatum was in the backseat.Delaney said she is her 22-month-old grandson’s full-time caregiver. They were headed out to go shopping when the collision unfolded about a five-minute drive from their home.

She said the crash occurred very suddenly.“The next thing I knew, I looked at my girlfriend and I was like, ‘What the hell happened?’ All you could see was the airbags,” she recalled. “I looked to the right out my window again and saw somebody had my grandson in their hand. And then all of a sudden I blacked out and I was in the hospital.”Delaney has a long list of injuries but she, her grandson and her friend all survived.

The driver of the other vehicle survived as well. He has since been charged with several offences.Delaney said she believes Tatum has experienced some level of trauma because of the crash. She said her friend sustained a serious concussion and has a broken wrist.“It’s scary,” she said.

“No one should have survived that accident. …“We obviously have guardian angels.”The level of destruction was evident at the scene of the crash. The car that hit Delaney’s was split in half.Delaney has a partially collapsed lung, a fractured eardrum, a broken nose, six fractured ribs, several of her teeth have been displaced and she has about a dozen stitches on her head.