Noah Driscoll said he was on his way to work Thursday afternoon when he found out that Smith, the mother of his two oldest children — a 14-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter — was killed in a crash.
“The information that I received was that my kids’ mom was sitting at this intersection at Little Richmond and Olive Road. The light was red. I guess allegedly it was some people racing or driving fast down Olive. The light turned green, she pulled out. When she pulled out they hit her and her vehicle, I guess it flipped over and it hit that tree down there and it killed her instantly,” Driscoll said.
The Montgomery County Coroner’s Office said Smith’s cause of death was multiple trauma. Also killed in the crash were 18-year-olds Elgin Wilson and Michael Stephens. Their cause of death had not been determined by the coroner’s office.
Driscoll was at the crash site with family members and some of Smith’s friends since childhood, including her best friend Talisha Hawkins.
“I just want people to slow down, to pay attention because she didn’t have to die,”Hawkins said as she teared up before the vigil.
Luckily, she said, Smith’s young son only suffered a concussion and was recovering from the crash that claimed his mother.
Driscoll said the area around the intersection needs more lighting and cameras, and she said that people’s behavior needs to change.
Credit: Jim Noelker
Credit: Jim Noelker
“I implore these young people to slow down. This could have been prevented. It was three lives that was lost,” he said. “This didn’t have to happen. She was only 35. A life gone, for what?”
The highway patrol said the crash remains under investigation, and that the county prosecutor’s office would review possible charges once the investigation is complete.
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