The Accident

Judy had graduated from college in 1966, and was working in the laboratory of Hahnaman Hospital in Philadelphia. A neighbor and his daughter, Arnold and Barbara Bowman, worked there also and they had arranged to drive to work together taking turns. On this day Judy was in the back seat of their Volkswagen Beetle with Barbara at the wheel. They were hit from behind by another Volkswagen driven by a man going home from work. Barbara received a head wound and lost control of the car which left the road and hit a tree.
Judy's injury was the only serious one but she had a severed or crushed spinal cord at the fifth vertebra. This left her completely paralyzed from the shoulders down with some slight arm motion but no hand feeling or control.