EVANS COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC) - It was a very mundane afternoon on August 6th, although Mary Ellen Thrift was excited to spend some time with 3-year-old Kinslee Kay, who was the granddaughter of her friend.

Thrift offered to pick up Kinslee and take her back to her house in Tattnall county.

While making the nearly 45-minute drive from Statesboro, Mary Kay turned down Kennedy Bridge Road, a road she had taken hundreds of times before.

Sadly, Thrift learned that day that in one second it can go from a mundane adventure to a fight for her, and Kinslee’s life.

“We were driving, I looked up and Kinslee through the mirror, she was just sitting smiling, looking back at me.”

Thrift, “I looked back down, and I was drifting off the road a bit. I over corrected and went across the highway.”

Unbeknow

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