Bralyn Padgett has a scar in the middle of her chest and one on her lower back from a pole that impaled her during a freak car accident, surviving only because it took a “one in a million” path through her body. It is all of the damage in between the scars that still must be fixed.

In April, the 19-year-old from Walterboro drove her car off the road and crashed through a wooden fence, then another, then a chain-link fence. A long pole from the chain-link fence smashed through her windshield, then through her chest, out through her back and the back of the driver’s seat, pinning her in place.

The pole narrowly missed her heart. First responders cut down the pole and cut her out of the car, sending her — with the pole still sticking out of her chest — on an air ambulance to the Medical Uni

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