High School Grad Who Was Given A 2 Percent Chance Of Survival At Birth Dies In Car Wreck On Way To Summer Job

A young female successful Texas who doctors said had a 2 percent chance to past astatine commencement was killed successful a car clang on nan measurement to her caller summertime job.

Makynna Tumlinson, 18, died successful a car crash connected Highway 11 while she was connected her measurement to commencement a summertime occupation connected June 3.

Stephanie Tumlinson, her mother, told KXII that she and her girl said conscionable earlier she near for nan day. Her father, Tommy, past drove to nan segment aft seeing her location was adjacent nan clang site.

“From that constituent on, we were conscionable panicking, you know, hoping that they sewage thing wrong, you know?” nan mother said, who received nan tragic news aft nan father’s journey.

When she was born, Tumlinson was fixed a 2 percent chance of survival. Doctors predicted she would beryllium stillborn, but “she hit those odds," her mother said.

Texas Department of Public Safety officials said Tumlinson was driving northbound connected Highway 11 successful a Chevy Cruz erstwhile she mislaid power and rear-ended a commercialized truck, CBS News reports.

The driver of nan truck, Hector Ivan Meja Garcia, 37, was treated astatine a section infirmary for insignificant injuries, DPS officials said.

Though she only had a short 18 years, her family said she lived them to her fullest. Tumlinson was a cheerleader astatine Tom Bean High School, became nan student assembly president, and was moreover named arsenic her school's prom queen, KXII reports.

She didn't extremity astatine conscionable racking up accolades. According to Tumlinson's mother, different parents from nan schoolhouse called her aft learning of nan devastating mishap to show her that their children had been bullied until they became friends pinch Tumlinson.

“I had moms reaching retired to maine that I didn’t moreover know, saying that their kid was bullied until they met Makynna. I had ever brought her up that way. Everybody has a story. You whitethorn not cognize their story, but you cannot judge a book by its cover," Tumlinson's mother said.

She added: “She had a nickname Sunshine because she brightened everybody’s day.”

Tom Bean High School held a remembrance arena for Tumlinson nan time aft she died, and posted a connection acknowledging her decease connected Facebook.

"Our hearts are surgery by nan tragic nonaccomplishment of our beloved student Makynna Tumlinson," nan school wrote.

The school’s summertime programming was cancelled connected June 9 to let participants to be Tumlinson’s funeral.

Community members person besides turned nan senior’s parking spot astatine nan schoolhouse into a makeshift memorial to grant her.

Tumlinson's family posted their ain Facebook post thanking nan Tom Bean organization for each of their support.

"From texting, calling, each nan hugs, contributions, food, supplies, prayers, conscionable everything, it conscionable shows nan bosom that this organization has," they wrote. "No words will ever really show really overmuch we admit each and each 1 of you."

Despite nan outpouring of support, nary magnitude of good wishes tin blunt nan symptom her family must strengthen arsenic they grieve.

“Nobody should person to hide their children. It’s nan hardest part. You know, I support reasoning it’s a nightmare that I’m going to aftermath up from and that she’s going to locomotion successful nan door,” Tumlinson's mother said.