A
25-year-old mother-of-one who survived a car crash on Sunday morning
has died after going back to the vehicle to grab her purse, police
claim.
Brittany
Leith, mother of a three-year-old girl, was left completely uninjured
when her Nissan hit the center median and flipped over onto its roof on
Long Island's Southern State Parkway at 3.54am.
However,
after clambering out of the wreckage through a cracked window and being
helped to the roadside by other drivers, Leith went back to her car to
collect her belongings.
But
before cops arrived,she returned to her vehicle in the left lane to
retrieve property from it, as she walked back, she was hit and instantly
killed by another car on the highway.
A
state police car then arrived and was also struck from behind by
another passing motorist. A state trooper was taken to the hospital to
be treated for minor injuries.
Her 73-year-old grandmother Claire Hansen said she doesn't know how they will break the news to Leith's daughter.
'We
have to tell this little baby, this little doll,' Hansen said. 'How do
we tell this little girl? . . . She keeps saying, "Where's Mommy?
Where's Mommy?" It's not supposed to happen this way.'
According
to State Police Senior Investigator Thomas Hughes, Leith was adamant
that she had to collect her belongings despite warnings from other
motorists.
Source: NY Post
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