Easter crash survivor Tracie Johnson, above left, poses in a portrait with her husband Morris Johnson Jr, her son Morris II, and her daughter Morgan who was killed in the Easter SUnday crash. Morgan’s brother Morris II was in another car and witnessed the accident that killed his sister and injured his mom.

From AJC.com:

    It was a beautiful spring afternoon, and Tracie Johnson was cruising home from church in her pastor’s Volkswagen Beetle. She was driving the car home for him as a favor, her 6-year-old daughter Morgan in the back seat. Her husband and son were ahead of her in the family’s SUV. They were looking forward to Easter dinner. They were almost home.

    In the opposite lane on Camp Creek Parkway was a Mercedes-Benz 320 carrying a family the Johnsons had briefly met at a birthday party months before. Speeding alongside the Mercedes, police say, was a BMW driven by a young woman on an errand to pick up ice cream and cake.

    Their three paths crossed violently about 1:30 p.m. on April 12. The fiery crash left Johnson the sole survivor of the two cars that collided head-on and led to an intense 10-day search for the BMW driver, who left the scene.

    On Monday, Tracie Johnson will be hoisted into a makeshift hospital bed and join her husband Morris Johnson II and their 11-year-old son, Morris III, at an East Point church to bid farewell to Morgan, whom family members called “Princess.”

    The four passengers in the Mercedes, Robert and Delisia Carter and their two children, were buried a week ago. Aimee Michael, 22, who police say was the driver of the BMW, was arrested last week and remains in jail, facing five counts of vehicular homicide.

    The Johnsons recalled the crash Friday afternoon in Tracie’s room at Grady Memorial Hospital. She had just finished a therapy session on her two broken legs and managed to smile while summoning nurses to bring pain medication. The fractured bones have required surgically implanted rods. Her hip has a pin. Her heel is fractured. Her collarbone broken. A smiley face balloon and one wishing “Get Well” floated behind her bed. READ MORE…

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