LEADING THE WAY. WELCOME BACK. TONIGHT, A MOTHER IS STILL IN THE HOSPITAL. FIVE DAYS AFTER A DEADLY WRONG WAY CRASH. THAT’S RIGHT. IT HAPPENED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT ON RONALD REAGAN HIGHWAY IN SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP. ONLY ON WLWT. RACHAEL HERXHEIMER IS LIVE OUTSIDE UC MEDICAL CENTER WITH THIS MOTHER’S STORY. RACHAEL. MIKE AND ASHLEY. VICTORIA MORGAN STORY IS KNOWN BY HER FRIENDS AND FAMILY AS MORGAN. SHE IS HERE AT UC MEDICAL CENTER RECOVERING AFTER THAT FIERY CRASH HAPPENED LAST WEEK, AND NOW THE COMMUNITY IS RALLYING AROUND HER AS SHE CONTINUES TO GET STRONGER. A FIERY SCENE ALONG RONALD REAGAN HIGHWAY NEAR HAMILTON AVENUE SHOWS THE AFTERMATH OF THE VIOLENT IMPACT. BY THE TIME THE POLICE GOT THERE, THE CAR WAS TOTALLY ENGULFED. IT WAS. SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN DEAD. IT WOULD BE A FUNERAL RIGHT NOW. IT HAPPENED AROUND 120 IN THE MORNING LAST WEDNESDAY. SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP POLICE OFFICERS WERE CALLED TO A REPORT OF A CAR GOING THE WRONG WAY. THAT CAR HIT MORGAN STORIES HEAD ON AS SHE WAS HEADING HOME FROM WORK. HER CAR WAS THE ONE THAT TURNED ON ITS SIDE AND COMBUSTED. POLICE IDENTIFIED THE DRIVER TRAVELING THE WRONG WAY AS 80 YEAR OLD WALTER JOHNSON. HE DIED AT THE SCENE. STORY SURVIVED, AND HER EX-HUSBAND SAYS A GOOD SAMARITAN PULLED OVER TO HELP AND SAVED HER LIFE. IF IT WASN’T FOR A MAN NAMED LARRY, WHO WE FOUND THROUGH FACEBOOK, THEN WE’D BE PLANNING A FUNERAL RIGHT NOW. STORIES. INJURIES ARE EXTENSIVE. SHE IS STILL MEDICALLY INDUCED IN THE COMA, AND SHE DOES HAVE MULTIPLE SURGERIES AND HEAD OF HER PLUS MONTHS. IF NOT A YEAR LONGER OF PHYSICAL THERAPY. AFTERWARDS, RICHARD WIMMER TELLS US IT’S BEEN A DIFFICULT COUPLE OF DAYS FOR THEIR CHILDREN, AS THEIR MOTHER REMAINS IN THE HOSPITAL, BUT HE SAYS STORY WAS BORN A FIGHTER. SHE’S GOING TO GET THROUGH THIS AND WE JUST NEED THE HELP TO KEEP BASICALLY HER LIGHTS ON, A ROOF OVER HER HEAD FOR WHEN SHE GETS BACK. AND HER FRIENDS HAVE SET UP A FUNDRAISER FOR HER TO HELP WITH THOSE MEDICAL BILLS AS SHE CONTINUES TO RECOVER IN THE HOSPITAL. SO FAR, MORE THAN $4,000 HAS BEEN RAISED. I ALSO SPOKE WITH HER NINE YEAR OLD DAUGHTER, WHO SAYS HER MOM IS STRONG AND SHE KNOWS SHE WILL GET THROUGH THIS. LIVE TONIGHT OUTSIDE UC MEDICAL