BARTOW COUNTY, Ga. — A 17-year-old driver accused of running a stop sign and killing her best friend says she doesn't remember the wreck.
Teresa Coker's teenage daughter Amber was driving on the night of March 20.
Police said she ran a stop sign and crashed into a silver SUV that was traveling down Georgia 20.
Two of the passengers in Amber Coker's car were injured, but her best friend Titus Williams, 20, was killed.
Amber Coker said she doesn't remember the wreck, but while she was in the hospital recovering she knew something tragic happened.
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“I felt it in my heart that something bad happened, and my mama looked at me, she was like, 'Titus didn't make it,' and I broke down,” Amber Coker said.
She felt guilty for surviving.
“If anybody should've made it, it should've been the three boys, just by looking at my car,” Amber Coker said.
When police told Amber Coker’s mother the wreck was fatal, she assumed her daughter died.
She said Amber Coker was her miracle baby. Seventeen years ago, doctors said she couldn't have children, so seeing her daughter alive and knowing the victim's family doesn't blame her daughter for the wreck is helping her make it through this.
“It’s like somebody took a big old barrel and took it off my chest,” Teresa Coker said.
Coker's family has set up a GoFundMe account if you'd like to help.
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