A Fort Worth woman said she feels fortunate to be alive after a driver struck her in a parking lot over the weekend, leaving her with two broken legs, a collapsed lung and a broken rib.<\/p>\n
Fort Worth police identified the driver as 22-year-old Yoriel Cabrera. He was arrested on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and intoxication assault with a vehicle and has since been released from the Tarrant County Jail after posting bond.<\/p>\n
Tiffany Chapman, a mother and nurse, spoke Monday from Harris Methodist about the crash and the injuries she suffered.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s been lots of emotion. Uh, lots of pain,\u201d Chapman said.<\/p>\n
Chapman said she was out with friends Friday night at a pool hall off Crowley Road, just south of Interstate 20 in Fort Worth, when someone in her group had a verbal exchange with a man in the parking lot. Chapman said the man appeared intoxicated.<\/p>\n
Less than a minute later, while she was still in the parking lot, Chapman said she saw headlights and then felt the impact.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew I wasn’t dead because I was in pain, but all I could do was call on God because I didn’t know what else to do,\u201d Chapman said. \u201cEven though I knew that I was alive, I didn’t know what had been damaged.”<\/p>\n
Chapman said she suffered breaks in both legs, a collapsed lung and a broken rib.<\/p>\n
\u201cLots of confusion because I don’t feel like the interaction that we had with that guy was worth him trying to kill us,\u201d Chapman said.<\/p>\n
According to Fort Worth police, Cabrera tried to run away after the crash but did not get far. Investigators said bystanders kept him from fleeing.<\/p>\n
Chapman said she did not know the driver who struck her.<\/p>\n
Now facing a recovery with significant uncertainty, Chapman said she is thankful she survived and is able to share her story.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m grateful, and I’m thankful to God that I’m just bruised and broken, but able to heal,\u201d Chapman said.<\/p>\n
This story was originally reported for broadcast by NBC DFW. AI tools helped convert the story into a digital article, and an NBC DFW journalist edited it again before publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fort Worth woman said she feels fortunate to be alive after a driver struck her in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-443682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}