Woman survives wreck, then killed by 18-wheeler driven by Georgia man

<p>A woman thrown from her fiance's sports car after it swerved out of control and flipped on Interstate 10 was struck by a tractor trailer and killed as she struggled to her feet, authorities said.</p><p>"She apparently made it to her feet in the road just before she was struck," Alabama State Troopers spokesman Spencer Collier said.</p><p>Tori Nicole Warning, 27, of Grand Bay was riding as a passenger when the 1997 Corvette driven by John William Freeman struck a car driven by Christy Powell of Biloxi, Miss., as both vehicles traveled eastbound on I-10, Collier said.</p><p>Troopers said Warning wasn't wearing a seat belt and was thrown as the Corvette then veered out of control and flipped just after midnight Friday.</p><p>Freeman, who had been wearing a seat belt, was taken to the University of South Alabama Medical Center, where he was in fair condition.</p><p>The collision with the cars and Warning's death were investigated as two separate incidents, Collier said.</p><p>He said it was unknown whether alcohol was involved in the car accident and there is no indication that the truck driver, Kenneth Boggs of Jonesboro, Ga., had done anything wrong.</p><p>Boggs and Powell were not injured.</p><p>Family members said Freeman proposed to Warning two weeks ago and the couple planned to be married in August. Warning's survivors include her 7-year-old son, Gordon Graves.</p>

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