Faith and Travis Hall
Crash Description
On December 30, 2006, Faith and Travis Hall were on day two of a U-Haul trip from IN to NY. While navigating the Pennsylvania Turnpike, a semi-truck driver fell asleep at the wheel and drifted into their lane. The driver clipped the back of their U-Haul and sent them off the road, careening in a 180-degree arc across the path of the truck and adjacent travel lane. Their vehicle left the roadway, went up a rocky embankment and barrel rolled back down toward the road.
Life After the Crash
Miraculously, they sustained only minor physical injuries but their lives were changed forever. This horrific crash fundamentally altered their world view. It has taken them years to work through the reverberations of the crash and manage negative feelings of fear and victimization. They will never be able to unsee the tragic loss and avoidable waste endured societally because of the prioritization of drivers’ convenience over safety. Faith and Travis’s crash showed them how we are all connected to traffic violence and that we deserve so much better.
Faith now serves as Volunteer Co-Chair of the DC Chapter of Families for Safe Streets, a grassroots advocacy organization that confronts the preventable epidemic of traffic violence by advocating for life-saving changes and providing support to those who have been affected by this crisis