SEATTLE, Wash. — A mother is angry after being hit on Highway 2 by a distracted driver who had smoked marijuana earlier that day.
"My first thought was kids," Angella Halk told us from her bed at Harborview Medical Center.
Now that Halk knows all of her kids are OK she has some thoughts for the driver who police said caused the wreck with her own kids in the backseat.
"Not that I would wish any ill harm on her children at all but her children didn't get hurt at all and here all my children have an injury of some sort. It doesn’t really seem fair,” Halk said.
Heather Lee is accused of vehicular assault. She told police she smoked marijuana earlier in the day but said the crash happened when she looked away from the road to scold her kids.
"I just laid down on my side because I knew I was going to throw up, and I just hear everybody flipping out, and I'm just sitting there, like, this is actually happening,” Halk’s 13-year-old son, Jaydin Halk, said. He’s still in the hospital.
Jaydin, his siblings, and a family friend were in the car with Halk when they were hit head-on. Nine people in five cars were injured; Halk is injured the worst.
"My left leg - the femur is broken and they put a titanium rod in there to fix that,” Halk explained, pulling back the sheet to show us her bandages.
Halk may be hurt and mad she almost lost her family, but she doesn't want Lee to lose her family.
"I know that what she did was wrong but I don't want [Lee] to have to be kept away from her children,” she concluded.
The other little boy in the van with the Halks who was hospitalized following the accident is expected to make a full recovery. He had reconstructive surgery on his eye and will be released from the hospital this week.
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