Star teen volleyball player loses legs in crash caused by unlicensed driver in St. Louis

A star Tennessee high school volleyball player lost both her legs after a horrific crash caused by an unlicensed driver who ran through a yield sign over the weekend, her team said.

Janae Edmondson, 16, was walking to her hotel Saturday around 9 p.m. after finishing the first day of her volleyball tournament in St. Louis, Missouri when the driver barreled toward her and her parents.

“A driver drove through a yield sign and struck a car. That car struck Janae,” her team, Mid TN Volleyball Club, said on Facebook.

Janae was rushed to the hospital with critical injuries.

Doctors were forced to amputate both of the young athlete’s legs, Mid TN Volleyball Club’s Assistant Director Jeff Wismer told KMOV.

“She has lost both limbs below her waist, so for us, how do you find words to explain our sorrow? We really can’t,” Jeff Wismer said.

“The road in front of Janae is tough. There’s going to be a lot of challenges ahead, financial challenges, emotional challenges that we’re hoping that the community can embrace this family as she goes through this unique time in her life that you can never imagine. This is an unthinkable situation that she has to encounter right now.”

Video shared by Citizens for a Greater Downtown St. Louis, a group committed to pedestrian safety, showed a grey Audi blast through a yield sign at an intersection before crashing into another car.

The crash sent the second car airborne, and it reportedly struck Janae as it rolled onto its roof and flew down the street.