A 35-year-old man is fighting for his life after being struck by a suspected impaired driver while changing a flat tire on the Southfield Freeway near Schoolcraft on Tuesday.

Casey Jones-Love was completing a DoorDash order with his wife and 3-year-old daughter in the car when they got a flat tire. While changing it on the shoulder of the northbound lanes, a vehicle crashed into them just after 7 p.m.

"He says 'babe, I'm almost done,' and as soon as he said 'I'm almost done,' it was 'boom,'" said Johnisha Holmes, Jones-Love's wife.

Holmes said she briefly lost consciousness during the crash.

"All I remember is the car spinning and spinning," Holmes said.

After regaining consciousness, Holmes quickly checked on her 3-year-old daughter, who was sleeping in the back seat, before searchin

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