An Egg Harbor Township woman is hoping to find the driver who fled after causing her car to flip several times on the Atlantic City Expressway.Tamika Bullock was driving home at about 6 p.m. Monday, near mile marker 8, preparing to get off at Exit 9, she told BreakingAC.“In the left lane behind me, I heard tires screeching,” she said.The upcoming vehicle was going back and forth and then banged into the driver’s side back door, she said.Her car then flipped three or four times. “I was alert the whole time, watching the car flipping,” she said. “I was thinking, ‘Am I going to die?’ ‘Is something else going to hit me?’” When the car came to a stop on its roof, Bullock couldn’t get out. She searched for her phone, calling 911.Then, several bystanders came to her rescue."I’m going to call them angels,” she said. They popped the side airbag and were able to get her out.Sitting with her, the people said that the vehicle that hit her was parked to the side. But she said she couldn’t see it past her car.When police arrived, the vehicle drove away.Bullock said she was surprised the car could even be driven, and that the person didn’t think anything of leaving the scene.“You could have killed someone in an instant,” she said. “You don’t even stay to take responsibility.”Emergency medical personnel treated her at the scene, then took her to the Trauma Unit at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center to check her out.There were some cuts and bruises, but Bullock said she knows she was lucky to walk away.But the psychotherapist also knows there will be some psychological repercussions.“I have family,” said the 46-year-old mother of three and grandmother to one. “I was scared.” Leaving the hospital, she said her son asked if she would suffer post-traumatic stress from the crash.“I’m going to fight it every step of the way,” she vowed. “I’m always working with people who have it. To experience the systems the flashbacks and things like that, it does take a toll.”Anyone who may have witnessed the crash or who has seen a car with consistent damage is asked to call State Police at 609-965-7200.
