Dallas Cowboys Sam Williams is ‘Thankful for Life’ After His C8 Stingray was Wrecked

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Dallas Cowboys Sam Williams is 'Thankful for Life' After His C8 Stingray was Wrecked


Dallas Cowboys rookie defensive end Sam Williams was just minutes away from his home when his one-day-old 2023 Corvette Stingray was destroyed in a crash last Thursday.

Now, in an interview Monday with the Dallas Star-Telegram, he’s talking about how fortunate he feels just to be alive after the crash.

“Yeah, my first thing was like, ‘thank you God’ because it could have been worse,” Williams told the newspaper. “I was thinking about my son and his mom. I could have been gone like that fast without seeing them and saying goodbye or anything. And I was going home to them. I think I was like five to six minutes from my house. I look back over at the accident and I am just thankful for life. Christmas was right around and like the biggest gift we have is life everyday because you never know.”

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The second-round draft pick from Ole Miss had just picked up the new Corvette the night before at Allen Samuels Direct in Euless, Texas and was T-boned in Plano by an elderly driver who did not yield the right-of-way. The impact destroyed the driver’s side of the Corvette, sending the front wheels flying off and scattering debris across four lanes.

“I was driving straight,” Williams recounted to the Star-Telegram. “All I remember is that previous car went by really fast without yielding. And then I was driving straight, I guess another car went and I looked over and I was getting hit from the side driver side. And I just held on real tight to the steering wheel and tried to brace myself. When it stopped, all I was hearing was ‘Get out the car, it’s smoking.’ Once I got out everybody had their phones out and was like ‘there’s no way you lived that. There is no way you lived that.'”

With the help of bystanders, Williams says he tried to help the 71-year-old lady driver out of the Infiniti that had just crashed into him, but the door was jammed “so we had to wait for fire department get there and open it.”

Dallas Cowboys Sam Williams is 'Thankful for Life' After His C8 Stingray was Wrecked


Both drivers were transported to the hospital for precautionary reasons, but Williams woke up on Christmas Eve feeling good enough to play in a key NFC East matchup with the Philadelphia Eagles. The Cowboys, however, elected to keep him on the sidelines for fear he might have suffered a head injury in the crash. He has since been cleared and is not in concussion protocol and should be ready to play against the Tennessee Titans on Thursday.

After spending a “fun” Christmas with his son and family on Sunday, Williams said Monday that “it’s just a blessing. It wasn’t a sad day.”

Furthermore, after the crash, he encourages everybody to hug their loved ones. “Any dispute with family members like end it because like you’ll never know when that day is,” he said. “Me going through that, I called family members and everybody to check up on them because like I said you never know. And I’m just thankful like that I’m still here because if you looked at the car, it’s like man. God works in mysterious ways. I know he has something in store for me.”


Source:
Star-Telegram

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3 COMMENTS

  1. That’s awful that happened to him but he was lucky. He didn’t even own the car one whole day. The Cowboys are going to hand the Titans their ass on Thursday!

  2. 1) Glad he is OK. 2) i would think “some air BAGS” would/Should of deployed. Hence one More reason why he was put on the sideLines 3) the Aluminium Frame and side impact Door Brace Did their “jobs”, so kudos to GM. 4) Wonder if the C8 has accelerometers for “Continuous” Black Box data recording of the incident?…

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