julie robbins

That's awful news.....keep us posted..

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This is copied from the newspaper where she lived.
I am so sick right now, I can't post anything else, other than the fact that she was really a great person, and I valued our trust and friendship.
Brad Fitzgerald

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September 23. 2005 12:00AM

Woman dies after fiery vehicle accident



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Power company personnel work to remove a broken power pole Thursday after it was hit head on in an auto accident on Junior Order Home Road near New Jersey Church Road. Brandy Dayle Koonts died from injuries received in the accident. (Bobbie Jamison/The Dispatch)






BY ROBERT COOPER
The Dispatch


A woman died Thursday night after her car ran off Junior Order Home Road and smashed into a power pole earlier in the day. The accident trapped her in her burning 2005 Ford sport utility vehicle.

Brandy Dayle Koonts, who was airlifted to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center after the wreck, was pronounced dead at 10:55 p.m. Thursday.

Koonts, 26, of Holloways Church Road, was traveling east on the road around 2:19 p.m. Thursday when the accident happened, but many of the details are not yet known.

"I was looking out the window and I heard a boom and the power lines shook," Joel Lopp said. He still has a burn spot in his yard where the car tipped on its side and burned. "I thought it was a tractor trailer caught on the power lines."

N.C. Highway Patrol troopers can only determine that the contributing circumstance to the accident was driving in a "careless, erratic manner," which is a general term used any time a driver loses control of the car. The speed limit in that section of the road is 55 mph.

Lopp called 911 and bystanders began to gather around the car in an attempt to help her.

"Quite a few people" helped tip the car back onto its wheels, Lopp said, but they could not help Koonts out of the car.

The Linwood Fire Department arrived on the scene first. While volunteers "broke the windows out, we were working on the fire," Capt. Kenneth Everhart said. Koonts was breathing as she was taken from the scene.

But Koonts had burns over 100 percent of her body, Everhart said: "She was burned from head to toe. The car was fully engulfed."

The South Lexington Fire Department also arrived on the scene and used the jaws of life device to free Koonts from the vehicle, Everhart said. Air Care arrived within seven minutes after being called.

This accident is probably the third on that street within a year, Lopp said. "It's a straight stretch so people think they can go 100 miles an hour down the road."

She was one of the nicest people I have met in this business.

I think she had a kid.

Sad.

Just not right. I knew her briefly and was very pleasant.

Dreadful thing to happen.

what an awful way to die. I didn't know her personally...but I know people who did. Very sad news.

Julie was indeed a class act as well as being a very charming and personable young woman.

I can't even begin to express how shocked and saddened I am by this news.

Thanks Gonzo for posting so quickly, when I called , I was too shocked and saddened to make a post.

I have posted in another thread http://www.gfy.com/showthread.php?t=520231 before I found this one.

I will be attending the visitation tonight and will relay condolences from the industry to her family.

I have lost a great friend, business partner and the industry lost a truly professional model ..... it is a tragedy.

Thanks

Ivy

Such a tradgedy..my deepest condolences

Very sad...

man, that's fucking sad..really

damn

im in tears ='(

thats sad news

so sad...

that's just very tragic. I pray for her soul.

Very sad indeed... Even though most of us found out two days ago... ;)

http://www.gfy.com/showthread.php?t=520231