“It shows her character. She stopped to help somebody. She was so special,' said 46-year-old Courtney Stockton’s aunt.
This comes as the Florida Highway Patrol is learning more about the series of traffic incidents that led to 46-year-old Courtney Stockton’s death.
FHP said a good Samaritan -- identified by family as Stockton -- saw the stranded truck and stopped to help.But while both the driver of the pickup and Stockton were out of their cars standing next to the driver’s side of the pick-up truck, an approaching driver didn’t see the truck on the road and hit it head-on, slamming the truck into Stockton and the other driver. The driver of the pickup was critically injured, and Stockton died at the scene.
Stockton’s family lives out of the area and has traveled to Jacksonville to gather her belongings. Kestner and Stockton’s mother were in her Arlington apartment Wednesday looking for proof of her identification so they could claim her belongings from the Florida Highway Patrol. Stockton’s aunt hopes the initial driver who caused the first stranded motorist to be stopped in the middle of the Southside Connector will come forward.