“I was shaking so hard I forgot how my phone worked,” Ana Simmon said Wednesday morning, standing near 2100 South and 400 East, the spot where a truck had crashed into her family as they walked home from trick-or-treating two years earlier.
The truck driver hadn’t seen Simmon’s father, husband or the wagon carrying three children. The truck turned left into the crosswalk and struck the wagon just after 7 p.m. on Halloween, she said. She held the hands of her now-5-year-olds as she recounted the details of the crash, in hopes that her story might encourage drivers to be extra aware of pedestrians on Halloween.