THE WITNESS
The impact was deafening.
Metal screamed against metal. Then, a terrifying silence.
Miles back, traffic ground to a halt.
19-year-old Anisa Gannon was sitting in her car, tapping her steering wheel in frustration.
She was going to be late for work. Again.
My boss is going to kill me, she thought. I need proof.
She rolled down her window. The air smelled of burnt rubber and gasoline.
She held up her phone and snapped a quick picture of the accident scene ahead. Just to show the traffic jam.
She didn’t look at the screen. She just hit “send” and waited.
Up ahead, paramedics were fighting a losing battle.
Hannah, her best friend Lauren, and little Alana were gone.
Javonte, the fiancé, was at work when he got the call that shattered his universe.
He lost his wife, his daughter, and his unborn child in one breath.
But Anisa’s phone had captured something the paramedics didn’t see.