The lady who witnessed her niece die after being hit by a automotive and hurled off the aspect of an I-20 overpass to the bottom under in suburban Atlanta on New 12 months’s Day stated it was a traumatic reminder of the way in which her dad and mom died 50 years in the past.
Police reported that 43-year-old Melody Coburn died within the early morning hours of New 12 months’s Day after being struck by a automotive on I-20 eastbound close to Fulton Industrial Boulevard.
Coburn was on the freeway getting her automotive towed after it broke down. She was speaking to the tow truck driver when a automotive sped proper into her.
Coburn’s aunt, Victoria Ann Woodson Kingston, instructed WSB-TV that she and her husband had been on the scene to select Coburn up once they noticed her get hit.
“After I noticed it occur, the very first thing I did was soar out [of] the automotive and scream for her to see the place she was,” Kingston stated. “When she acquired hit, I noticed her spirit rise and I knew she was gone.”
The motive force who hit Coburn stayed on the scene, however Kingston stated there was no cause that the motive force shouldn’t have seen them.
“We had our lights on. We had our flashers on. And the tow truck gentle was spiraling,” she recalled.
Kingston instructed WSB-TV that her dad and mom died nearly the identical precise manner when she was 17 after a drunk driver crashed into them in New Jersey. Police are nonetheless investigating if the motive force who hit Coburn was drunk or below the affect of different substances on the time of the crash.
“It simply brings this again up once more 50 years later,” Kingston stated.
Kingston stated Coburn was a fun-loving lady with a love for health and bodybuilding who seemed ahead to attaining her targets for 2024.
“She stated she was entering into a brand new part and he or she put hashtag declare it. That was the final submit she made,” Kingston stated.
The Vibe Experience Indoor Cycle Studio that first welcomed Coburn as a member in 2015 earlier than she turned an authorized indoor biking coach a 12 months later, posted a heartfelt assertion on Instagram to honor Coburn’s reminiscence, which partially learn:
In case you had been blessed to know Melody Coburn, then you realize her form intentions, her coronary heart of gold and her trustworthy soul. If you’re a part of a group, it’s as a result of Mel constructed it. She was beneficiant together with her kindness and love, and the littlest issues meant a lot to her. She meant a lot to all of us at Vibe Experience. Her vitality, ardour and motivation are so genuine and so inspiring.
Police say they’re nonetheless investigating the incident. The motive force and the passenger in his automotive had been transported to the hospital for analysis and therapy. Nonetheless, authorities say they didn’t endure any life-threatening accidents.
