Woman in crash with semi ‘very lucky’
Felix Doligosa Jr., Rocky Mountain News
Published July 19, 2006 at midnight
Joanne James never thought she would be in another accident involving a semi-truck.
But it happened again yesterday afternoon, when James, 56, was driving her Volkswagen Beetle on southbound Interstate 25 near 20th Street when a veering truck smashed her car against a concrete barrier.
James had to be pushed and pulled from the sandwiched car, which was completely destroyed.
She suffered bruises on her legs and a scratch on a knuckle on her right hand.
"I’m just an ordinary person and something extraordinary happened," James said.
In 1993, James was driving with her then-husband on a highway in North Carolina when a semi-truck drove into their lane and knocked off the side view window of their Corvette.
"I do what I can," she said. "I was very lucky."
James, who lives in Denver, said she is sore and needs rest.
"She has guardian angels watching over her," said boyfriend Dennis Christensen.
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