Friends launch GoFundMe for Raleigh man who went to help other driver after wreck
Daryn Quick is facing a long recovery after being hit by a truck while checking on another motorist in a wreck Dec. 4, a friend said this week.
Quick, 41, and his wife were returning home from dinner with their 7-year-old son around 8 p.m. when they saw a 2009 Ford SUV run a stop sign at the intersection of Ten Ten Road and Rand Road near Garner, according to an N.C. Highway Patrol report.
The SUV plowed into a 2004 Dodge truck heading east on Ten Ten Road, sending it to the shoulder of the road, and then crashed into the Quicks’ 2017 Honda, the report shows.
Quick got out to check on the SUV driver, Cynthia Contreras of Raleigh, and was standing between the vehicles when a 2020 Ford truck hit the SUV, the report shows. The impact pushed the SUV out of the way, and the truck ran over Quick, hitting the Honda.
Quick’s wife Laura, who is a nurse practitioner, ran to her husband, who was lying on the pavement and gave him CPR until an ambulance crew arrived, a witness told WRAL. He was taken to WakeMed in Raleigh, the report shows.
“We were sitting there and looking at them and everyone was fine,” witness Lauren Barker told the news channel. “Then out of nowhere, a truck came barreling as fast as possible, and not just ran into them but ran over them. That’s when I heard this woman’s piercing screen. Just screaming stop and finally the truck stopped and I looked down, and there was a man on the ground.”
Quick, who suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries, remains in the hospital and faces a long recovery, said Racheal Alvey, who organized a GoFundMe campaign this week to help the family.
As of Wednesday morning, the campaign had raised over $6,400 toward its $18,000 goal.
“We are asking for help, no matter how big, to support this family who has brought so much joy and laughter to those in their community,” Alvey wrote in a post. “We are hoping this fundraiser will provide some relief as they navigate these tough times.”
Alvey told The News & Observer in an email Tuesday evening that she’s gotten updates through mutual friends, but “things have been very fast moving and critical and his family is not in a space to share updates publicly or interview with anyone at this unstable time.”
Contreras was charged with failing to yield the right of way in the initial wreck, the Highway Patrol reported. The driver who crashed into Contreras’ SUV and ran over Quick has not been charged.
