Back in August of 2024, FTVLive told you about an awful car crash which badly injured an Orlando Reporter.

The station kept the news of the crash silent, until now.

WESH has now done a story with Paola Tristan Arruda, the Reporter nearly killed in the crash.

WESH writes on their website, according to Florida Highway Patrol, a driver ran a red light on the eastbound exit ramp from I-4 to Lee Road and smashed into the car Tristan-Arruda was riding in.

Tristan-Arruda had just gotten food with her friend and was a passenger in the car.

The impact was so hard that she was thrown into the back seat of the vehicle, despite wearing her seat belt.

Tristan Arruda said she does not remember anything from the crash and only remembers waking up in the hospital one week later.

"I don't remember getting into my friend's car, I don't remember going to McDonald's, and I certainly don't remember the accident," Tristan Arruda said.

Tristan-Arruda broke her arm and hip in the crash, dislocated one of her elbows, fractured her wrist, fingers and a portion of her spine, and also had a head injury and a number of internal injuries.

"I never thought that something like this would happen to me, and it sounds so cliche, you hear people say it all the time," Tristan Arruda said. "One split decision that was to no fault of my own, I could have lost my life because someone made a decision to run a red light, to be distracted."

Tristan Arruda returned to work at the station back in December. Apparently, WESH figured the May book was the time to tell her story.