Dallas Marine Corps Veteran Receives Recycled Ride - FenderBender

Oct. 17, 2022—A seasoned and parent of 3 successful Texas precocious received a conveyance from the National Auto Body Council Recycled Rides program. 

According to a property release, the presumption of a 2014 Nissan Altima took spot astatine the determination GEICO office successful Richardson, Texas. GEICO donated the conveyance and Texas Collision Centers refurbished it. 

The recipient was Kim Jones-Snipes, a U.S. Marine Corps seasoned who was selected to person the conveyance by the Salvation Army. Jones-Snipes moved herself and her 3 children to Dallas successful bid to flight an abusive situation. She has worked arsenic a transportation idiosyncratic for Instacart, Spark and Doordash. She had an connection to thrust transportation for Amazon, but her car broke down. The Recycled Rides conveyance volition guarantee that she and her household person reliable transportation. 

Members of the Women's Industry Network enactment connected the presumption with the National Auto Body Council. Other partners included 1-800 Charity Cars, Hertz and Enterprise Rent-A-Car.

“We, astatine WIN, are truthful grateful and humbled to beryllium capable to enactment successful specified a singular program, specified arsenic NABC Recycled Rides,” said Kristle Bollans, WIN and NABC committee subordinate via the property release. “The acquisition of reliable proscription is thing that we tin ne'er instrumentality for granted. What an grant to basal by our friends astatine the National Auto Body Council and amusement our enactment for the communities wherever we unrecorded and work.”