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  Speaker 1: In the early morning hours of April twenty seventh, two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and six, a phone rang inside of a home
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  Speaker 1: in rural Michigan. When the homeowner answered it, what they
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  Speaker 1: would hear would instantly ruin their lives, But that phone
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  Speaker 1: call was nothing compared to the call they got five
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  Speaker 1: weeks later. This story has one of the most insane
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  Speaker 1: plot twists we've ever covered on this channel, so make
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  Speaker 1: it is. But before we get into today's story, if
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  Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. On Wednesday, April twenty sixth,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and six, a bright, beautiful, outgoing eighteen year
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  Speaker 1: old named Whitney Sarah began making her way across her
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  Speaker 1: campus towards her lecture hall, where she had a class
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  Speaker 1: that morning. Whitney was a freshman at Taylor University, which
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  Speaker 1: is an Evangelical Christian liberal arts college located in Upland, Indiana.
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  Speaker 1: Upland is a little town that sits about two miles
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  Speaker 1: east of Interstate sixty nine and is situated right between
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  Speaker 1: the two much larger cities of Indianapolis and Fort Wayne.
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  Speaker 1: As Whitney made her way along the pathway across campus
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  Speaker 1: and she passed by other throngs of students hustling to
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  Speaker 1: their own classes, she suddenly had a pang of anxiety
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  Speaker 1: as she realized the end of the school year was
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  Speaker 1: fast approaching. And while Whitney was definitely excited to head
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  Speaker 1: back home to rural gay Lord, Michigan, where she was from,
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  Speaker 1: to spend her summer vacation, she was also kind of
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  Speaker 1: bummed because she would have to say bye to all
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  Speaker 1: of her new friends in college that she wouldn't see
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  Speaker 1: again until after summer break in the fall when the
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  Speaker 1: next school year started. Whitney had made a ton of
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  Speaker 1: friends over the course of her freshman year, and by
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  Speaker 1: and large they were other freshmen like herself, but she
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  Speaker 1: did have a few friends that were upperclassmen, because early
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  Speaker 1: in Whitney's collegiate career she had discovered that upperclassmen were
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  Speaker 1: just as friendly as freshmen, and they came with the
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  Speaker 1: bonus of lots of experience and expertise, and if you
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  Speaker 1: just asked them for guidance or advice, they'd be happy
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  Speaker 1: to give it to you. And so, over the course
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  Speaker 1: of the school year, anytime Whitney had an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: interact with or be around upperclassmen, she would take it, thinking,
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe I can learn something. And in fact,
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  Speaker 1: that morning, as Whitney was making her way across campus,
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  Speaker 1: she saw a sign that was asking for students to
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  Speaker 1: volunteer to the next day head out to this banquet
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  Speaker 1: hall to set up this big banquet for the school's
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  Speaker 1: new incoming president. And so when Whitney walked over to
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  Speaker 1: the table and asked the people what this was all about,
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  Speaker 1: she would learn that the majority of the people that
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  Speaker 1: had signed up to be volunteers so far were upper classmen.
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  Speaker 1: And so as soon as she heard that, Whitney was
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  Speaker 1: quick to write her name down as well. The rest
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  Speaker 1: of the day would go completely as normal for Whitney.
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  Speaker 1: She would go to her classes, she would study, she
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  Speaker 1: would meet up with friends, and then eventually in the evening,
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  Speaker 1: she would make her way back to her dorm room,
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  Speaker 1: where she would go to sleep. Little did she know
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  Speaker 1: when she put her head down on the pillow that night,
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  Speaker 1: she was within twenty four hours of her life changing
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  Speaker 1: in the most drastic way imaginable. The following morning, Whitney
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  Speaker 1: got up early. She took a shower, she brushed her teeth,
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  Speaker 1: and then she spent quite a while just staring at
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  Speaker 1: her wardrobe, debating which outfit she was going to wear.
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  Speaker 1: And then finally she chose the one she wanted and
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  Speaker 1: she got dressed. Whitney was not vain, but she knew
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  Speaker 1: the whole day would be spent around upper classmen and
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  Speaker 1: university staff, and so she wanted to look her best.
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  Speaker 1: On her way towards her door to leave, Whitney would
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  Speaker 1: stop and look in her mirror one last time to
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  Speaker 1: make sure she looked okay. And in this fleeting moment,
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  Speaker 1: as she's looking herself up and down, she couldn't help
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  Speaker 1: but feel a justifiable sense of pride in this woman
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  Speaker 1: looking back at her. She had gotten into a great college.
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  Speaker 1: She had moved hundreds of miles from home and lived
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  Speaker 1: alone by herself for the first time, and her grades
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  Speaker 1: all year had been excellent, and so as Whitney's looking
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  Speaker 1: at herself, she thought to herself, you know what, I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing pretty good. Whitney's gaze would move from her reflection
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  Speaker 1: up to the clock on the wall, and she would
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  Speaker 1: see she was running late, and so she quickly grabbed
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  Speaker 1: her jacket, she threw it over her shoulder, and she
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  Speaker 1: went out the door. When Whitney arrived at the meeting
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  Speaker 1: spot in the parking lot nearby, she saw there was
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  Speaker 1: a group of what looked like students standing around a
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  Speaker 1: university van, and so Whitney walked up to them, and
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  Speaker 1: sure enough, this was the group of volunteers. It consisted
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  Speaker 1: of seven other tailor students, most of which were seniors,
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  Speaker 1: and one university staff member, and so Whitney didn't know
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  Speaker 1: any of them, and so she quickly introduced herself. Everyone
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  Speaker 1: said hi, and then, because Whitney was the last person
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  Speaker 1: they were waiting on, very quickly after she arrived, we
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  Speaker 1: kind of ushered into the van, and then the van
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  Speaker 1: pulled out of the parking lot and began heading north.
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  Speaker 1: Towards Fort Wayne. Fort Wayne was where the banquet hall was.
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  Speaker 1: It was located about an hour north. At some point
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  Speaker 1: during this drive north, Whitney struck up a conversation with
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  Speaker 1: a twenty two year old senior named Laura Van Wrinn,
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  Speaker 1: who was sitting right next to her. Whitney and Laura
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  Speaker 1: were total strangers, but they looked so similar physically. They
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  Speaker 1: were both tall, blonde, and very slim that when they
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  Speaker 1: first got onto the van, one of the other volunteers
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  Speaker 1: actually asked them if they were related. But it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: just physical similarities that Laura and Whitney shared. Once they
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  Speaker 1: got to talking, Whitney would learn that Laura had also
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  Speaker 1: grown up in a small, rural Michigan town. It was
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  Speaker 1: called Caledonia, and it was located only a couple of
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  Speaker 1: hours south of Gaylord, where Whitney had grown up. After
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  Speaker 1: the van finally arrived in Fort Wayne, the volunteers put out,
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  Speaker 1: They went inside of the banquet hall building, and for
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  Speaker 1: the next several hours, they set up tables and chairs,
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  Speaker 1: they put out silverware, they hung up decorations, and the
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  Speaker 1: whole time Laura and Whitney just stayed close together, continuing
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  Speaker 1: their friendly banter, and then around seven pm, when the
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  Speaker 1: banquet hall was ready for the next day's ceremony, the
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  Speaker 1: volunteers decided their work was done, and so they left
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  Speaker 1: the banquet hall building. They piled back into the van
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  Speaker 1: and began heading south back towards their campus. For the
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  Speaker 1: first few minutes of the ride, Laura and Whitney would
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  Speaker 1: just continue to chat with each other, but pretty quickly
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  Speaker 1: they liked the rest of the people in the volunteer group,
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  Speaker 1: just retired from all the hard work of moving things around,
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  Speaker 1: and so they became quiet and began looking out the window,
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  Speaker 1: just kind of keeping to themselves. About thirty minutes later,
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  Speaker 1: when the van was within a couple of miles of
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  Speaker 1: their campus, Whitney would turn and look next to her
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  Speaker 1: at Laura, just for a second, and right as she did,
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  Speaker 1: Laura would actually look up and look at Whitney, and
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  Speaker 1: so for a really quick second they made eye contact,
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  Speaker 1: and so Whitney kind of awkwardly smiled at her, and
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  Speaker 1: as Laura was smiling back at Whitney, Whitney realized something
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  Speaker 1: very strange. There was this bright light on the side
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  Speaker 1: of Laura's face, and then seconds later that bright light
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  Speaker 1: had grown and the entire interior of the van was
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  Speaker 1: completely whited out. And then a second later, someone towards
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  Speaker 1: the front of the van yell, oh my god no,
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  Speaker 1: dozens of nine to one to one calls were coming
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  Speaker 1: in from motorists on I sixty nine saying that something
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  Speaker 1: terrible had happened. When first responders arrived on scene, they
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  Speaker 1: were braced for the worst, but even still they were
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  Speaker 1: shocked at what they saw. Scattered all over the northbound
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  Speaker 1: and southbound lanes of I sixty nine, not far from
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  Speaker 1: Taylor University, where all these huge chunks of jagged metal.
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  Speaker 1: There was glass everywhere, and there were bodies everywhere. That
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  Speaker 1: light that Whitney saw growing on Laura's face that suddenly
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  Speaker 1: filled the entirety of the van where the headlights of
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  Speaker 1: an eighty thousand pound fully loaded tractor trailer truck driven
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  Speaker 1: by Robert Spencer. Robert was a truck driver, and he
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  Speaker 1: was traveling north on I sixty nine when he fell
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  Speaker 1: asleep at the wheel, at which point his truck veered
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  Speaker 1: off off the road into the grassy median between the
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  Speaker 1: northbound side and the southbound side of I sixty nine.
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  Speaker 1: His truck bounced up onto the southbound lane and crashed
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  Speaker 1: into Laura and Whitney's van, And when it did, the
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  Speaker 1: impact literally peeled off the side of their van and
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  Speaker 1: sent the van spinning. And so as the van is
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  Speaker 1: spinning because of this huge opening in the side of it,
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  Speaker 1: the students inside were literally being violently thrown out of
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  Speaker 1: the van into traffic. When first responders finally actually began
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  Speaker 1: surveying the crash site, they would find Robert still in
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  Speaker 1: his truck. He was alive, but they would discover that
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  Speaker 1: of the nine occupants inside of that van, five were deceased.
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  Speaker 1: A few hours later, in the early morning hours of
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  Speaker 1: April twenty seventh, Whitney Seric's family back home in Gaylord, Michigan,
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  Speaker 1: woke up to the sound of a phone ringing. When
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  Speaker 1: one of Whitney's parents answered the phone, it was the
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  Speaker 1: Grant County Corner telling them their daughter had been in
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  Speaker 1: a terrible accident and she was deceased. At the same time,
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  Speaker 1: three hours south of Gaylord, Michigan, in Caledonia, Michigan, the
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  Speaker 1: Van Wrinn family also was woken up in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the night to a phone call, except the call
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  Speaker 1: they got was that their daughter, Laura, had been in
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  Speaker 1: that same crash, but she had survived, although she was
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  Speaker 1: in critical condition. In the days that followed, the Sarah
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  Speaker 1: family had Whitney's body transported to Gaylord, and then they
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  Speaker 1: began to plan for her funeral, a funeral that would
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  Speaker 1: have to be closed casket because of the extensive damage
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  Speaker 1: to Whitney's body. Meanwhile, Laura Van Wrin's family rushed to
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  Speaker 1: Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne, and they would find their
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  Speaker 1: daughter bandaged head to toe with a neck brace on
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  Speaker 1: laying in a hospital bed in a coma, doctors would
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  Speaker 1: tell Laura's family that even though Laura was now stable,
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  Speaker 1: there was no way of knowing if she would ever
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  Speaker 1: come out of that coma, and even if she did,
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  Speaker 1: she had suffered a serious brain injury which likely would
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  Speaker 1: impact her ability to function. And so, knowing that at
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  Speaker 1: best this was going to be a very long road
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  Speaker 1: to recovery, Laura's family decided to move her from Fort
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  Speaker 1: Wayne back home to Michigan to a rehabilitation center in
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  Speaker 1: Grand Rapids that specialized in brain injury. And so while
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  Speaker 1: the Van Rinns were in the process of moving Laura
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  Speaker 1: back to Michigan, the Cerahs were in the process of
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  Speaker 1: saying their final goodbyes to Whitney. On April twenty ninth,
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  Speaker 1: so three days after the accident, the Serax would hold
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  Speaker 1: a visitation in their hometown of Gaylord. A visitation is
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  Speaker 1: a time for friends and acquaintances to come together and
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  Speaker 1: pay respects and offer condolences to the people that the
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  Speaker 1: deceased have left behind. For Whitney's visitation, more than fourteen
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  Speaker 1: hundred people attended, which was nearly half of Gaylord's total population.
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  Speaker 1: The following day, on April thirtieth, Whitney was buried. At
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  Speaker 1: the same time, Laura's family, who had been taking turns
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  Speaker 1: keeping a twenty four hour bedside vigil with Laura in
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  Speaker 1: the Grand Rapids Facility, were given some incredible news. Based
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  Speaker 1: on brain scans, it looked very much like Laura would
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  Speaker 1: wake up from her coma, although there was no timeline.
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  Speaker 1: Over the next couple of weeks, Laura remained comatose, but
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  Speaker 1: her body would slowly begin to heal, and all signs
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  Speaker 1: seemed to be pointing towards her eventually making a recovery.
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  Speaker 1: And then, on Tuesday, May sixteenth, so twenty days after
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  Speaker 1: the accident, Laura woke up from her coma, and amazingly,
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  Speaker 1: at first, it seemed like her brain was functioning the
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  Speaker 1: way it should be. The family could not believe their luck.
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  Speaker 1: This was a miracle. Over the next few days, Laura
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  Speaker 1: would slowly regain her strength to the point where she
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  Speaker 1: could move some limbs and she could sit up in
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  Speaker 1: her bed. And then, as for her cognitive function, it
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  Speaker 1: seemed like she was making strides, but then she would
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  Speaker 1: do something that would make doctors and her family and
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  Speaker 1: everybody around her start to question if her brain really
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  Speaker 1: was okay. On Monday, May twenty second, so one week
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  Speaker 1: after Laura had woken up from her coma, she was
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  Speaker 1: sitting in her hospital bed with her physical therapist right
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  Speaker 1: next to her, and her family was in the room
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  Speaker 1: as well, and at some point her physical therapist handed
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  Speaker 1: Laura a pencil, and then she put a pad of
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  Speaker 1: paper in front of her, and then the therapist told
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  Speaker 1: Laura to write a word down that was very specific.
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  Speaker 1: It was a word that Laura should know well and
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  Speaker 1: a word that Laura should be able to spell. And so,
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  Speaker 1: after Laura kind of gave a nod saying she understood
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  Speaker 1: the assignment, Laura took the pencil and very awkwardly and
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  Speaker 1: painstakingly wrote out a word. But when she was done
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  Speaker 1: and the therapist looked at what she had written, it
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  Speaker 1: was wrong. It didn't make any sense, and so she
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  Speaker 1: asked Laura to do it again. And so Laura, with
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  Speaker 1: even more determination, would try to write this word, and
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  Speaker 1: once again she wrote the same word, the same incorrect word.
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  Speaker 1: And so it was at this point that the therapist
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  Speaker 1: and the onlooking family started to realize that her injury
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  Speaker 1: to her brain might be more extensive than we thought. However,
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  Speaker 1: as everyone in that room would soon find out that
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  Speaker 1: was not the case. There was something much, much bigger
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  Speaker 1: going on. Back on April twenty sixth, just minutes after
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  Speaker 1: the car accident, first responders began moving about the crash
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  Speaker 1: site to figure out who was deceased and who was
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  Speaker 1: still alive. When they found Laura, she was barely clinging
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  Speaker 1: to life on the side at the road, and so
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  Speaker 1: they rushed over to her. They put her on a stretcher,
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  Speaker 1: along with her purse, which contained her driver's license. They
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  Speaker 1: put that all together, they put on an ambulance, and
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  Speaker 1: they sent her to the hospital. Once Laura arrived at
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  Speaker 1: the hospital, doctors would use her driver's license inside of
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  Speaker 1: her purse to identify her, and then they began wrapping
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  Speaker 1: her head to toe and bandages and casts. And when
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  Speaker 1: bandages began coming off over the following weeks, it was
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  Speaker 1: immediately obvious to everyone that this accident had significantly altered
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  Speaker 1: Laura's physical appearance, most notably her teeth. They almost looked
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  Speaker 1: like they had been shifted to one side in her mouth. However,
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  Speaker 1: to Laura's family, they didn't care how she looked. They
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  Speaker 1: only cared that she was still alive. But on Monday
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  Speaker 1: May twenty second, when Laura was handed that piece of
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  Speaker 1: paper and a pencil and she was told to write
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  Speaker 1: her name, she did not write Lauora Laura. She wrote
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  Speaker 1: Whitney Whitney. It would turn out a colossal mistake was made,
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  Speaker 1: and nobody caught it until that moment. The woman sitting
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  Speaker 1: in the hospital bed with a pencil and paper was
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  Speaker 1: not twenty two year old Laura van Wrenn. The woman
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  Speaker 1: sitting in the hospital bed was eighteen year old Whitney Seric.
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  Speaker 1: When Whitney was found on the side of the road,
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  Speaker 1: clinging to life, the first responders thought the purse next
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  Speaker 1: to her was hers, and so they opened it up.
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  Speaker 1: They found a driver's license. They looked at it, and
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  Speaker 1: they looked at the victim on the ground, and they
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  Speaker 1: looked identical. And so they said, okay, this is Laura.
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  Speaker 1: And amazingly, Whitney's purse that contained her driver's license happened
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  Speaker 1: to land on the ground next to Laura's body, and
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  Speaker 1: so Laura was misidentified as Whitney. Serek. A week after
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  Speaker 1: Whitney had written her name down on that pad of paper.
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  Speaker 1: It was officially confirmed that this was a case of
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  Speaker 1: mistaken identity, and so, once again, the Sarah family received
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  Speaker 1: a call in the middle of the night from the
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  Speaker 1: Grant County corner, except this time they were telling them
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  Speaker 1: that your daughter did not die in that car accident.
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  Speaker 1: She's alive. She's in Grand Rapids waiting for you. And
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  Speaker 1: so the Sarah family they were completely shocked. They wanted
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  Speaker 1: this to be true, but it just seemed too good
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  Speaker 1: to be true. They had had a funeral for Whitney,
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  Speaker 1: they had buried Whitney, except because it was closed casket,
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  Speaker 1: they never saw Whitney. And so the Sarah's hopped in
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  Speaker 1: a plane, they flew to Grand Rapids and they walked
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  Speaker 1: into that hospital room, and there on the hospital bed
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  Speaker 1: was their daughter, Whitney, with their arms outstretched, crying, calling
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  Speaker 1: for her parents. While this, of course was a miracle
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  Speaker 1: for the Seihs, it was at the same time a
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  Speaker 1: complete nightmare for the Van Rinz. They had had their
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  Speaker 1: suspicions that something was off about their daughter, most notably
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  Speaker 1: her teeth, because they just didn't look like their daughter's teeth.
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  Speaker 1: But they had been told by the doctors and by
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  Speaker 1: anybody who would talk to them that it was perfectly
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  Speaker 1: normal for people involved in these very significant accidents to
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  Speaker 1: look completely different or even act completely different, and so
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  Speaker 1: the Van Wrins just kind of put their suspicions to
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  Speaker 1: the side then focused on looking after their child and
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  Speaker 1: helping her recover. A few days later, Laura Van Rinn's body,
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  Speaker 1: which had been buried in Gaylord, Michigan, under the tombstone
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  Speaker 1: that said Whitney Serik, was exhumed and her body was
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  Speaker 1: flown to Caledonia, where the Van Wrinn family was able
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  Speaker 1: briefly during that volunteer event in Fort Wayne, their families
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  Speaker 1: would forge a bond over this shared trauma, and in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, two years after the crash, these
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  Speaker 1: Serex and the Van Rinz would co author a book
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  Speaker 1: about their experience in going through this horrible event from
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  Speaker 1: Two Families, One Survivor Unwavering Hope. Also that year, on
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  Speaker 1: April twenty sixth, so the second anniversary of the accident,
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