JACKSON, Miss.—Slow down. Buckle your seatbelt. Drive defensively.
A row of warning signs remind Terry High School students to drive safely, but Jonathan Knight hardly needs the reinforcement. Every day the 16-year-old deals with the fallout from a Sept. 13 car wreck that collapsed both his lungs, damaged one kidney, broke his collarbone and severely bruised his brain.
He can’t play his favorite sport; doctors say baseball is too risky for a traumatic brain injury survivor. And he has found that class work isn’t the breeze it used to be.