"I was warned about texting and driving, but I always thought, 'It's not gonna happen to me,' " Liz Marks tells People. In April 2012, just two weeks shy of her 18th birthday, Marks' sedan plowed into the back of a flatbed truck that had stopped to make a left turn. She had been reading a text at the time - just one word sent from her mother: "Ok." Marks was airlifted to the University of Baltimore Shock Trauma Center where she remained in the ICU for one month as she underwent multiple surgeries to reconstruct her face and skull. "I'm deaf in my left ear,...
- 3/4/2016
- by Tiare Dunlap, @tiaredunlap
- PEOPLE.com
"I was warned about texting and driving, but I always thought, 'It's not gonna happen to me,' " Liz Marks tells People. In April 2012, just two weeks shy of her 18th birthday, Marks' sedan plowed into the back of a flatbed truck that had stopped to make a left turn. She had been reading a text at the time - just one word sent from her mother: "Ok." Marks was airlifted to the University of Baltimore Shock Trauma Center where she remained in the ICU for one month as she underwent multiple surgeries to reconstruct her face and skull. "I'm deaf in my left ear,...
- 3/4/2016
- by Tiare Dunlap, @tiaredunlap
- PEOPLE.com
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