The parents of a woman who died in a car crash and donated her organs to help save five lives came face-to-face with one of the recipients in an emotional meeting.
Samantha Justice, 20, was killed over a year ago after being hit by a truck on the Capital Beltway in Washington D.C.
Over the weekend Samantha’s parents, Ray and Angela, met with Jackie Price, 25, who received Samantha’s lungs in a transplant operation on June 21, 2016, NBC Washington reported.
Jackie, who has suffered with lung disease her entire life, said: ‘Her lungs continue to breathe through me. I know every day I have here is because of Samantha.’
Angela told Jackie: ‘I know there’s a part of my daughter in there, in you. You’ve got a beautiful soul.’
Angela Justice met with Jackie Price, who received Samantha Justice’s lungs after her fateful car crash that killed her in June 2016
Angela and Jackie, pictured here hugging, got to meet each other for the first time
Jackie posted a photo of her with Ray and Angela to her Instagram on Sunday
Samantha Justice (pictured here) was killed a year ago after being hit by a truck on the Capital Beltway in Washington D.C.
The touching meeting began with Jackie saying she couldn’t put into words her feelings: ‘I don’t really know how to put into words, it’s like appreciative, it’s not even close to a word.’
Angela was able to listen to her daughters lungs through a stethoscope.
Jackie revealed she has been able to go back to work and is currently navigating her new life, thanks to the lifesaving transplant.
Angela (R) was able to listen to her daughters lungs through a stethoscope
Jackie emotionally said: ‘Her lungs continue to breath through me. I know every day I have here is because of Samantha’
Angela said to Jackie: ‘I know there’s a part of my daughter in there, in you. You’ve got a beautiful soul’
Angela recalled the heartbreaking moment she received a call from the police the morning of her daughter’s fateful crash.
‘I got the phone-call, it’s about 4:30 in the morning, from the Maryland State Police,’ she emotionally told the camera.
‘The first words out of my mouth were “is she gonna make it?” he said no ma’am.’
Angela said about her daughter: ‘She was just the sweetest, sweetest young girl. If she saw somebody on the street, she would stop and give them whatever she had.’
The emotional union was caught on video that shows the duo embracing
Angela revealed that she hoped a young girl would get her daughter’s heart and lungs
Angela is pictured here explaining the bittersweet story
Jackie posted a photo of her with Ray and Angela to her Instagram with the caption: ‘Yesterday I met Samantha’s family. Her mother, Angela, and father, Ray, heard their daughter’s lungs breathe again, breathe for me.
‘I felt instantly connected with Angela and the rest of her family.’
She ended it with: ‘I plan to keep in touch with Angela, Ray and the rest of their family and want to make a trip down to Wilmington to visit them in the near future.’
Jackie regularly posts photos to her Instagram, keeping her friends and family up to date with her situation. She is seen above shortly after the transplant
Samantha was just 20-years-old when she was hit by the truck that eventually killed her