Friends help Austal employee injured crossing street to work
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — 62-year-old Anthony Tanner is living with life-long injuries after being hit by a car while crossing a road near Austal on January 4th.
He was crossing Dunlap Drive before dawn back in January when the collision happened and now he’s paralyzed from the waist down. Friends gathered this weekend as part of a larger effort to help him raise money while Tanner is out of work. Members of Fat Boys Grilling were smoking ribs Saturday morning. The grilling group is a nonprofit that helps raise money for people in difficult situations. Organizers say they’re happy to help and look forward to when their friend is back on the job at Mobile’s largest private employer.
“His spirit is unbroken and he’s looking forward to coming back to work,” said friend Jay Smith.
“Taking care of others is always been of paramount importance. Many of us that are on the Fat Boys grilling team are military veterans ourselves. And for us, service is goes well beyond what we did in the military,” said Sean Sullivan with Fat Boys Grilling.
Tanner has been a project engineer at Austal for the last 11 years. He says he’s grateful for the support and it’s been a long journey between operations at UAB and rehab in Mobile.
Police say the driver stopped in the crash and wasn’t impaired, no charges were filed.
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