Fundraiser started to Help Family After Fatal Jackson County Crash

A family friend has started a GoFundMe to support the husband and loved ones of a woman who died in a Jackson County crash Saturday.

Danielle Cox, 35, died Saturday following a crash in Jackson County. Cox’s vehicle crossed into oncoming traffic and collided head-on with a pickup truck.

Dustin Coffey, a friend of Cox’s husband Jon, started the fundraiser to help support the widowed father and his two children.

The fundraiser can be accessed at the following link:  https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-grieving-father-and-children

The Fundraiser states: 

“He’s crushed he lost his wife, and he’s left with a single father with two kids to raise,” Coffey said. “I couldn’t imagine being in his position.”

Coffey said he did not know Danielle personally, but he has been close with Jon for more than a decade. Both are truck drivers who often talk for hours on the road.

“We just talk all the time on the phone. We’re both truck drivers. We just keep each other awake a lot of mornings and pass long hours on the road,” Coffey said.

Coffey said those conversations have changed since Saturday, now focused on helping Jon figure out what comes next.

“It is just a very unfortunate situation. It’s affected him financially, he’s had to take time off work, and it’s just a bad situation,” Coffey said.

The situation hits close to home for Coffey, who lost his mother at a young age.

“It was horrible. It changed the whole trajectory of my life. It was a complete night-and-day change, and it crushed me for years. I still struggle with it to this day. I mean, that was my mom,” Coffey said.

Coffey said he hopes the community can help ease some of the burden for Jon and support his two children as they begin life without their mother.