COLUMBIA COUNTY, Fla. (WCJB/Gray News) – A Florida woman says she was on the phone with her fiancé when she heard the crash that took his life.
It was a phone call Amanda Ulicky will sadly not forget.
She said that it happened last Sunday morning.
“I heard screaming going on. I heard sirens,” Ulicky said.
The commotion she heard that day was the sound of a crash on State Road 100 that killed 31-year-old Neal Estep.
Ulicky said she had to break the news to her 2-year-old daughter that Estep wouldn’t be coming home.
“I never thought I would have to tell my child that daddy is gone … he’s not coming back,‘ she said.
According to Ulicky, Estep was pushing his SUV to a gas station that morning after it broke down. She says she was on the phone with him when she heard the impact of the crash.
“I heard the phone drop. It was just a traumatic thing to hear,” Ulicky said.
The Florida Highway Patrol confirmed the collision, saying another driver collided with Estep.
Ulicky said she raced to the scene and spent hours there until she was told he didn’t make it.
“I felt like my heart was ripped out of my chest. I almost fell to my knees. I was in tears. Like all the wind was sucked out of me,” she said.
Troopers said the crash remains under investigation.
“Our lives are shattered because of what happened,” Ulicky said
Estep would have turned 32 on March 18.
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