{"id":398,"date":"2017-09-25T18:39:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T18:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madd.org\/georgia\/?p=398"},"modified":"2022-05-26T07:40:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T07:40:27","slug":"officer-james-frederick-freddie-norman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madd.org\/georgia\/officer-james-frederick-freddie-norman\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer James Frederick &#8220;Freddie&#8221; Norman"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"398\" class=\"elementor elementor-398\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-29a1bac elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"29a1bac\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-35fd9cf4\" data-id=\"35fd9cf4\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3eab73ea elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3eab73ea\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p>Cobb County Georgia <strong>Officer Freddie Norman<\/strong>&nbsp;of Austell, Georgia was given less than a 1 percent chance of surviving after a teenage drunk driver slammed into his patrol car as he was responding to an emergency call on April 17, 1988.<\/p>\n<p>The crash left Officer Norman a quadriplegic and unable to talk, but he persevered and was able to communicate through a computer. He received the Blue Star Award, given to officers injured in the line of duty, and saw his daughter Christi Norman sworn in as an officer with the Austell Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Officer Norman succumbed to injuries sustained in the crash 21 years later on February 14, 2009. He is survived by his wife, Faith, three daughters and three grandsons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is heartbreaking to see a loved one deal with severe disabilities all because a 16-year-old made a bad choice by becoming intoxicated and choosing to drive instead of calling a taxi or having a designated driver. Freddie was confined to a wheelchair with limited movement and unable to talk for 21 years. It took a toll on his body. It is devastating to lose a loved one as a result of drunk driving. As an&nbsp;officer, one of Freddie\u2019s main goals was to keep drunk drivers off the road. What happened to Freddie does not have to happen again,\u201d said Faith.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">Officer Norman is the Highlighted Victim of the 2017 Mercedes-Benz Stadium 5K\/Walk Like MADD in Atlanta on September 30th, 2017.<\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cobb County Georgia Officer Freddie Norman&nbsp;of Austell, Georgia was given less than a 1 percent chance of surviving after a teenage drunk driver slammed into his patrol car as he&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/madd.org\/georgia\/officer-james-frederick-freddie-norman\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Officer James Frederick &#8220;Freddie&#8221; Norman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-victim-stories","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Officer James Frederick &quot;Freddie&quot; 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