NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Weeks after a serious car crash landed her in the hospital, Destinee Roland is still fighting to survive.

In mid-November, she was in the passenger seat of a car, pulled over on I-24 because of a flat tire. That's when an 18-wheeler ran into them.

"That's my - that's my first niece. So I definitely have a soft spot in my heart for her," said her aunt, Erica Woodland.

She said Destinee is still in the ICU trauma unit at Vanderbilt, but that the 27-year-old is a fighter.

"We're survivors," she explained. "I say 'we' because I'm a leukemia survivor. So talking to her is like, you know, I've been here. I've been stuck in the hospital for months. I understand, it's painful. I understand that you don't even know what happened to you."

In the meantime, Destinee has

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