DETROIT (WXYZ) – A Detroit mother is thanking the people who saved her daughter’s life.Deanna Craddock’s daughter Whitney, a young postal worker, was outside her mail truck when she was hit by an impaired driver and pinned underneath the two vehicles.
“I was just saying a prayer on the side of the bed for God to protect my children and as I was ending I got a phone call that my daughter was trapped under a car,” says Deanna Craddock.
Craddock’s daughter was hit and seriously injured yesterday in Eastpointe.
“I’m just so thankful my baby is alive,” she says.A postal worker, on the job for just 11 months, she was unloading mail from the back of her mail truck into her mail bag when she was hit by a burgundy Buick Regal – her body pinned underneath, between the two vehicles.