Joe Friscone and his wife, Jan, of Middleburg Heights, Ohio, were headed to the hair salon they own one early winter morning in 1999 when they hit black ice on the Ohio Turnpike.
Their then-new 1999 Nissan Pathfinder spun twice, rolled down a hill and flipped 2 1/2 times, landing on its roof.
Jan Friscone lost consciousness and was airlifted to the Cleveland Clinic, where she stayed in intensive care for weeks being treated for head trauma and crushed vertebrae, injuries that more than seven years later still cause her pain. Joe Friscone broke an arm and ribs.
"For the first time in my life, being a typical cocky male driver, having driven sports cars in Ohio where it snows, I had never lost control of the car. But when it went into the spin, nothing I did could stop it," he said.
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