A woman will remarry her husband five years after an accident that caused her to forget him and their life together.
Angela Sartin-Hartung will renew her vows with Jeff Hartung in Central Park, New York in June, five years after being hit by a traffic enforcement vehicle in 2013, Fox News reported. She was put into a medical coma after the accident, which caused a traumatic brain injury, facial fractures, broken teeth, nerve damage and partial hearing and vision loss.
She woke up from the coma thinking it was 1998 and not remembering meeting Hartung, marrying him in 2001, or much of her children's growing-up years. Sartin-Hartung was awarded $2 million in a civil suit against the city when several witnesses testified that she was visible in the crosswalk before being hit, even though she was crossing against the light, DNA Info reported.
The family had moved to New York for her teen daughter, an aspiring ballerina, to train with the SLK Ballet company, and Sartin-Hartung was walking home after trying to catch a bus when she was hit, DNA Info reported.
After the accident, the family moved back to Tulsa and Sartin-Hartung spent the next five years falling back in love with her husband, she said, Fox News reported. She wanted to renew their vows because she said she remembered marrying her first husband, who died in 1998 of cancer.
"I'm getting excited," Sartin-Hartung told the New York Daily News. "My memory is still completely gone, but I have pictures all over the house of Jeff and me, and he's just such an awesome man. It makes me cry."
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