(Rochester, N.Y.) -- For the first time, the people who were inside the car Nick Joseph rear ended at 75 mph in August 2008 have given a public interview.
Alexis Sharp and her fiancé, Teran Green, were in the car that had stalled on I-390.
Sharp doesn't remember being slammed into with a force that collapsed the entire back seat of her Hyundai.
“The last thing I remember is pulling over and calling for roadside assistance,” she said.
She awoke in the hospital to learn doctors had delivered her daughter, who was 14 weeks premature, by emergency c-section weighing just two pounds.
Green said he could hold his daughter in the palm of one hand.
"I could hold her just perfectly in my hand—feet, arms, head, and all," he said.
Both mother and baby nearly died. Yet, at the trial, a Greece police officer testified the accident wasn't serious.
"It was very hurtful for them to think that what I and my daughter went through wasn't serious because what [we] went through was serious. And, what Azaria is suffering with and still has to deal with is very serious," she said.
It wasn't until days after the accident that they learned that Joseph, an off-duty Greece Police sergeant, was driving and, that critical police investigation work was never done.
So on top of the stress of having an accident and a sick child came fears of a cover up.
Green said, "It was nerve racking trying to figure out what happened and how is he going to be held accountable for his actions…You hear people talking, saying things like, ‘Oh they're going to just sweep this under the rug.’"
Baby Azaria still has many difficulties and was taken to the doctor again Monday for problems with her lungs.
The couple says they are grateful for the thoughts and prayers of so many people they don't even know.
Sharp said, "She's a miracle; she's amazing. She has lots of energy and she's a blessing."
Both say they are now ready to focus on what’s most important.
"That's my main focus, my family. It’s been a long nine months justice is served for my daughter. Now, we can move on," he said.
