She spent the next three days hospitalized. She sustained severe fractures in her face, to her right orbital bone, nose, eyebrows, sinuses and right cheek. Doctors performed CT scans on her face, head and body. “We are actively working on this investigation, along with our Allied Agency partners, to identify and bring a suspect(s) to justice to answer for their crime.”īurnett was taken to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, where she said it sounded like “a million people came in” and activated the hospital’s trauma response. “The CHP condemns this type of senseless behavior that has impacted this family,” CHP Contra Costa said in a statement. Officials with the CHP’s Contra Costa unit asked the public Tuesday on Facebook to contact them if they see any suspicious activity in the area of Highway 242 between Olivera Road and the Highway 4 interchange, where Burnett was struck. “I was so scared and in so much pain that the ambulance ride to the hospital felt like forever.” “They believed that somebody had thrown a rock over the overpass and into my car, through my windshield,” Burnett said. The dark-rimmed prescription glasses she was wearing at the time snapped in half, and the windshield was shattered, a large hole in the driver’s side marking where the rock barreled through the glass.Ī grapefruit-size rock smashed Burnett’s windshield. Inside the ambulance, she said, she heard a California Highway Patrol officer tell a paramedic that officers found a rock in her sport utility vehicle. It was about 10:45 p.m.īurnett told the operator that something had hit her while she was driving, but that she did not see what happened or what struck her. She called 911 using its Siri application. Her Apple Watch wasn’t connecting, so she ran her hands along the glass-splattered floor of her 2016 Subaru Forester until she felt her cell phone.
Through darkness, she navigated her car to the side of the road until she felt the tires hit the curb. “I managed to get through those thoughts.” “Am I going to die right now? Am I going to die right here?” Burnett recalled thinking. Before she got behind the wheel of her sport utility vehicle that night to head to work, she shopped for groceries for Christmas dinner, took naps with her two boys and husband Steven, and cooked chicken vindaloo, rice and garlic naan with her family, dropping off a warm plate of food for her father that evening. Today was my last memory of what they look like.’”īurnett, 37, has two children, 3-year-old Hunter and 9-month-old Sawyer. ‘I’m not going to be able to see my kids anymore. “I just thought, ‘Oh, my God, I’m blind.’ I started thinking about my family all of sudden in that same instance. “Everything went pitch black,” Burnett told The Chronicle on Wednesday.
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