CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. – A 15-year-old has a long recovery ahead of him after family members say he was dragged by a car while helping his mother.
Witnesses say it happened last Monday outside Charles Drew High School in Clayton County.
“I didn’t think this would ever happen to me or my son, ever,” Raven Winston said.
Winston stepped outside her son’s room at Grady Memorial Hospital on Thursday; he was recovering from a near-fatal accident that had occurred over a week earlier.
“He and I were on the car speaker[phone] talking. I was telling him that I know it was dark out here and the clouds are coming but will be there in a moment,” Winston said.
Winston was heading to school last Monday to pick up her son, De’Lon, from football practice when someone hit her car.
“A truck came and struck me, speeding from that way, swinging me around. I could …