Against the odds, Texas teen walks again A Texas teenager is defying the odds after a terrible car accident. Seventeen-year-old Lacy Johnson was a passenger when the driver, her friend's mother, had a seizure in June. Lacy tried to grab the wheel, but couldn't stop the car from rolling over and was thrown from the vehicle. The crash left her paralyzed on one side, and doctors told her family she might not make it. But she was determined to recover.