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 2 injured in motorcycle crash in Surfside Beach 2 injured in motorcycle crash in Surfside Beach SURFSIDE BEACH, SC (WBTW) - Surfside Beach police were called to a reported motorcycle crash Friday afternoon.The crash happened around 1 p.m. at the intersection of 10th Avenue South and Hollywood Drive.A man and a woman injured in the crash were treated by EMS.There's no word on what caused the crash. SURFSIDE BEACH, SC (WBTW) - Surfside Beach police were called to a reported motorcycle crash Friday afternoon.The crash happened around 1 p.m. at the intersection of 10th Avenue South and Hollywood Drive.A man and a woman injured in the crash were treated by EMS.There's no word on what caused the crash. ||||| By Erica Byfield 
 
 Only Channel 2 Action News was there when a widow hugged the woman who killed her husband. 
 
 
 
 Glen Walker died in November 2011. 
 
 
 
 Police say Tamara Matthews was behind the wheel of an out-of-control minivan that slammed into the Walker family car on Flat Shoals Road in south Fulton County. 
 
 
 
 Walker was driving and his wife, Sandra, and their two kids were in the car. 
 
 
 
 Matthews’ 16-year-old son died in the crash, Sandra Walker suffered a life-altering brain injury and her husband died days later. 
 
 
 
 On Thursday, nearly 2 ½ years after the accident, Matthews entered a plea to misdemeanor counts of homicide by vehicle and failure to maintain l ane. 
 
 
 
 A judge sentenced Matthews to 36 months’ probation and 500 hours of community service. 
 
 
 
 During a victim-impact statement, Sandra Walker shed tears as she told Matthews she forgives her. When the court proceedings ended, Walker hugged Matthews. 
 
 
 
 Channel 2's Erica Byfield spoke to Walker afterwards. 
 
 
 
 "I know she is going through as much pain as I am feeling . I wanted her to know that I forgive her for what she did," Walker said. 
 
 
 
 Earlier, Matthews told the court and the Walker family she was sorry. 
 
 
 
 The judge told Matthews her community service should include acts that honor the lives of her son and Glen Walker. ||||| Sandra Walker was also injured in the head-on crash. The couple’s two children were not injured. (Family photo) 
 
 By Alexis Stevens 
 
 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 
 
 One woman lost her husband in the crash. The other woman caused the crash, which also killed her teenage son. 
 
 But today in court, the two women hugged. 
 
 Tamara Matthews avoided jail time in the crash that killed both Joshua Jenkins, 16, and Glen Walker, 35, in November 2011. She entered a guilty plea today to misdemeanor counts of homicide by vehicle and failure to maintain lane and was sentenced to 36 months’ probation and 500 hours of community service, Channel 2 Action News reported. 
 
 Matthews apologized to Walker’s family in court. And when it was her turn to speak, Walker’s widow, Sandra, said she forgives Matthews. 
 
 “I know she is going through as much pain as I am feeling,” Sandra Walker told Channel 2. “I wanted her to know that I forgive her for what she did.” 
 
 On Nov. 5, 2011, Matthews veered into oncoming traffic on Flat Shoals Road in south Fulton County, near the intersection with Harper Valley Drive, causing the head-on wreck, The AJC previously reported. Eight people were hospitalized after the crash, which killed Joshua Jenkins at the scene. 
 
 Matthews’ van struck a van containing the Walker family of Duluth, which caused the family’s van to flip and land on its roof, police said. 
 
 Glen Walker, 35, who was driving the van, died from injuries weeks after the crash. His wife sustained a traumatic brain injury in the crash and turned 30 while hospitalized. The couple’s two young children were not seriously injured. 
 
 At the time of the crash, the Walkers were on their way to Callaway Gardens, where Sandra Walker was planning to run a 10K race, a family member previously said. Family members aren’t sure why the Walkers had gotten off I-85 and were on Flat Shoals Road, but speculated the family may have planned to stop for a bathroom break. 
 
 Glen Walker was a loyal friend who always smiled and enjoyed playing a variety of sports, such as basketball, flag football and soccer, sister-in-law Michelle Walker said after his death. He attended the University of Georgia after growing up in Norcross. 
 
 The judge told Matthews her community service should include acts that honor the lives of her son and Glen Walker.
– A Georgia widow confronted the woman responsible for her husband's death in a fatal car accident in court yesterday—and gave her a hug, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “I know she is going through as much pain as I am feeling,” Sandra Walker told WSB-TV of her encounter with Tamara Matthews. "I wanted her to know that I forgive her for what she did." In the 2011 crash, Matthews' van hit the Walker family's van, killing both Walker's 35-year-old husband and Matthews' 16-year-old son. Sandra Walker suffered life-altering brain trauma; her two young children, who were also in the car, escaped serious injury. Matthews pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and failure to maintain lane, but she avoided jail time at yesterday's sentencing. Walker, who didn't want Matthews to be separated from her remaining children, had wanted it that way, WBTW reports. Instead, the judge gave her 36 months of probation and 500 hours of community service.