A young mother has died following a Kansas car crash, years after she survived a separate collision that left her in a coma for months.
Brittany Gondoly, 25, died on August 26, five days after the devastating wreck. She is survived by her three-year-old daughter, Harper, and 13 siblings.
According to the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office, the crash happened shortly after 2pm on August 21 in Andale, roughly 26 miles northwest of Wichita, when Gondoly’s Chevrolet Trailblazer collided with a Chevrolet Silverado pickup at an intersection.
Emergency crews responded to the area of 53rd Street North and 279th Street West and transported Gondoly to a hospital, along with the Silverado’s driver, a 20-year-old man.
The male driver, who has not been publicly identified, sustained serious injuries but is expected to recover. Gondoly succumbed to her injuries five days after the crash.
Authorities said the investigation remains ongoing. Detectives currently believe “the Trailblazer failed to yield to the westbound Silverado before the vehicles collided in the intersection.”
Gondoly’s grieving family described her as a “free-spirited, kind, and loving person who cherished her family more than anything.”
“Above all, she loved being a mother to her three-year-old daughter, Harper,” relatives wrote on a fundraising page created to help pay for her funeral and medical expenses.
Brittany Gondoly, pictured left, has died in a car crash just a few years after miraculously surviving another traffic collision which left her in a coma for several months
‘Harper was Brittany’s world, and the love she had for her daughter was something everyone around her could see.’
Her siblings said she had been involved in another car crash as a teenager, which she survived after being in a coma for several months.
‘She was in the backseat of a pickup. They left a football game and she laid down on the backseat to sleep,’ Gondoly’s brother Justin Faulk told CBS affiliate KWCH.
When she woke up from her coma, she faced a long road of rehabilitation.
‘Even I don’t know if I would have the strength to do it, but she made it through, she was a miracle,’ said her sister, Amanda Cunningham.
Cunningham described her sister as ‘the joy that walked into the room’ and as a person who was ‘always happy’.
Gondoly’s final act was to donate her organs, something her family have said has brought them comfort as they grieve.
‘Now, she is donated, and other people will be able to keep going. So she’ll still be here,’ her mother, Wanda Pell, told KWCH.
‘It means a lot, it helps a lot of us,’ Cunningham added.
‘We also get to be notified of who potentially gets a match. And we’ll be able to talk to them and meet them in the future. So that gives us hope.’
Brittany Gondoly, 25, has died in a car crash just a few years after surviving another traffic collision which left her in a coma. She is pictured with her three-year-old daughter, Harper
Gondoly, 25, from Sedgwick County, Kansas, passed away on August 26 following the horrific accident five days prior, leaving behind her 13 siblings and three-year-old daughter, Harper
The family’s fundraiser states that Gondoly did not have life insurance, and they are hoping to raise $12,000 for her medical and funeral expenses.
‘If you are unable to donate, sharing this fundraiser can make an incredible difference,’ the fundraiser reads.
‘Please help us honor Brittany’s memory and support the daughter she loved so deeply. Every donation and every share will help carry Brittany’s love forward.
‘Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for helping us honor Brittany and for standing beside her family during this incredibly difficult time.’
No arrests have been made in connection with the car crash. Our News Outlet has reached out to Andale Police for further information.
