Danbury victim of April 2020 wrong-way crash on Saw Mill Parkway remains in a coma
Conway and Sandra Dickerson say their oldest daughter, Shaniqwa, was on her way home from work in New York in April when the accident occurred on the Saw Mill River Parkway in Mount Pleasant.
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Feb 12, 2021, 1:15 AM
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Danbury family is holding on to hope that their daughter will come out of a
coma she has been in since a head-on collision last April by a wrong-way
driver.
Conway
and Sandra Dickerson say their oldest daughter, Shaniqwa, was on her way home
from work in New York in April when the crash occurred on the Saw Mill
River Parkway in Mount Pleasant.
The
32-year-old was taken to Westchester Medical Center and was put into a medically
induced coma. The family says Shaniqwa suffered a traumatic brain injury, damage to her liver, and a broken hip and femur.
To complicate matters, she also contracted COVID-19.
The family
has set up a GoFundMe page, hoping to offset their mounting medical
bills.
"Everything
is just crazy for us,” says Sandra Dickerson, Shaniqwa's mother. “We don't know
if this guy was drinking. We don't know if he was on drugs. We don't know
anything. And she's not back all the way."
Westchester
County police say the wrong-way driver, Anthony Rodriguez, from Yonkers, was
not seriously injured in the crash. Police say no charges were filed against
the 42-year-old, but the incident is still under investigation.
