From the Traverse City Record Eagle: Tina Cardinal sat in a motorized wheelchair, a tube attached to her throat that allows her to breathe. She described how she was hurt in a car accident eight years ago.
"I was passing a semi and he ran me into a tree," she said in a barely audible voice. She paused. "He got a ticket."
Cardinal recently met with a reporter at The Lighthouse Neurological Rehabilitation Center in Kingsley, where she resides with 14 others. She suffered a traumatic brain injury and receives lifetime medical care, thanks to Michigan's no-fault vehicle insurance.
