High school seniors share a special bond and that was never more evident for the Habersham Central High graduating class of 2015 than on Monday as students reached out to a classmate who was critically injured in a wreck. They flooded the halls and ICU waiting room at Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) in Gainesville – more than 100 people at times – waiting on word of Lindsey Brown.
Brown, the 18-year old daughter of Alice Roland Brewer and Jamey Brown of Habersham, was critically injured Monday morning around 10 in a rollover wreck in Hall County that spanned all four lanes of State Route 365. The Georgia State Patrol says Brown was heading north toward Habersham when she ran off the shoulder of the road, traveled back across both northbound lanes into the median and overturned multiple times across both southbound lanes of the highway before landing in a ditch. She was rushed by ambulance to NGMC where she remains in critical but stable condition this morning.
As word of the accident filtered out through the news and social media, students and faculty responded. They joined the Brown family at the hospital to offer support and encouragement. A group of more than a dozen returned home to Habersham late last night to send Lindsey a message. They gathered at ‘the rock’ on the high school campus in Mt. Airy and showed their solidarity by painting it with a flower with her initials in the center surrounded by their handprints. The students also included a Bible verse, Isaiah 40: 29-31:
He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
but those who hope in the Lord
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
Lindsey Brown is an active member of the youth group at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Clarkesville. Her Sunday School teacher Laurie Brooks reached out through social media Monday asking for prayer:
She is loved by so many and have so many praying for her. My heart breaks for them all. Praying for God’s healing on her precious life!
As seniors return to school this morning eagerly awaiting word of their classmate, Lindsey Brown’s family anxiously, prayerfully, waits at the hospital for news of her prognosis. A family friend tells Now Habersham Lindsey is undergoing medical tests to determine the full extent of her injuries.
The following photos were posted on Facebook by HCHS security guard Kristi Tucker Payne.
