A survivor of a severe crash in Gwinnett County, Georgia, is out of a coma, his family said.
Mesiah suffered a broken leg, bruises, and cuts from a crash on Friday night, Oct. 27, that left three Gwinnett County high school students dead.
Mesiah was in critical condition for three days at Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville.
“He remembers the impact,” his father said. “He remembers hitting everything. He remembers being down there. He remembers his leg was broken.”
“He saw one of his friends laying there. He kept telling him to get up and he wouldn’t move.”
The father said that the boy survived because he was wearing a seatbelt.
“I 100 percent believe that’s the reason why he survived,” he told Channel 2. “He was still hanging in the seat belt when they cut him out.”
According to local reports, the teens were leaving a high school football game and crashed 10:16 p.m. local time on Friday. Martinez was driving a Toyota 4 Runner and approached a slower vehicle, swerving right to avoid hitting it. The car then hit a guardrail and flew into the air, hitting a tree.