Jennifer Duncan, from Texas, was driving on a bridge to take her son to kindergarten. That was when she saw an accident in the rearview mirror and stopped on the edge. Then she took her 8-month-old baby, Daniel, and waited for help to arrive. But what was supposed to be a safe place proved to be extremely dangerous. A few minutes later another car hit her car, and the latter was violently heading towards her mother and child.
Jennifer and Daniel fell from the bridge 9 meters until they landed under it. In a split second Jennifer took her child and behaved like a human shield to protect her child from impact with the ground: “I just tried to hold him tight and I understood that holding him in safety was my biggest concern. “
The mother’s strategy worked, the child landed without a scratch, but the consequences on her were major. The brave mother was taken to the hospital with a fractured pelvis, 9 fractured spinal bones, a broken leg, and internal bleeding.
It took her two months to recover in the hospital, she underwent 14 surgeries, and the doctors amputated her leg. Friends have built a page so that those who want to donate money can do so. Right now, strangers from all over the world who find out her story are donating to Jennifer’s cause.
Jennifer’s case is about motherly love that can make women overcome any obstacles for their children. Respect to this brave woman who proved this to all mothers in the world!