A quiet Alabama community is rallying around an 18-year-old girl who woke up from a medically induced coma after a devastating car crash—and what she told her family afterward has left many deeply emotional.
Layla Crowell, an 18-year-old junior at South Lamar High School, was critically injured in a crash on Highway 27 in Reform, Alabama. She was airlifted to UAB Hospital in Birmingham after suffering severe, life-threatening injuries.
Doctors placed her in a medically induced coma as they fought to stabilize her condition.