As Lori began to merge onto the lane for the off ramp towards downtown, a careless semi drive unexpectedly decides to change lanes. Not spotting the van to his left, the semi pulls left, the massive truck pits the van, the van then becomes lodged onto the semi's front bumper. The force of the semi was to much for the driver to handle, the steering wheel practically flies out of his hands. The truck then swerves directly into the guard rail of the off ramp. Lori still pinned to the front, slams into the rail at 80mph, the van practically crumples upon impact.
Lori's head is thrown into the driver side window, smashing the glass. Lori throws her right hand up to protect her face when a piece of glass slices into her arm. Although the cut hurt, Lori didn't care, all she cared about was staying alive.
Without warning, another jolt hits both vehicles, what Lori was unaware of was that a pileup was beginning to emerge, another semi had collided with the wreckage, unable to stop in time. Lori again hits the the driver door as the semi that collided with her is thrown into her van once again. Time and time again she is jolted in the van from the constant crashes occurring on the highway. After seven crashes another semi slams into the wreckage at full speed. Lori cuts her forehead on the broken drive window, blood begins to stream down her face. Some of the blood runs into her eyes, temporarily blinding her as she try and quickly clear the liquid for her vision.
The jolts have become at this point only slight as most of the force was being absorbed by the hundreds of tons of metal and rubber. The van was badly damaged, the engine was dead, windows were folded onto be the roof, yet the worst part, all entry points for oxygen to flow were cut off.