He had to go walk and get gas, and then he said he was returning to the car on the highway,” a woman who said she was his wife, Kalabrya Haskins, told an emergency operator.
“I kept calling and calling and he wasn’t answering, and eventually — I continued to call him, the phone eventually cut off, and it’s not working now.
The call was released Wednesday by Florida Highway Patrol, about 10 days after Haskins, 24, was killed while trying to cross Interstate 595’s westbound lanes in Broward County on the morning of April 9.
The driver of a vehicle in that lane veered left to try to avoid hitting him, but the right side tires or undercarriage partially contacted Haskins, the report states.
His family plans to hold multiple services this weekend to honor him.
“Anyone who knew Dwayne, knows he worked exceptionally hard to achieve such a high level of success at such a young age.
He rose to prominence at Ohio State, where he set OSU and Big Ten Conference records as a redshirt sophomore in 2018, including single-season passing yards .
Washington selected Haskins as the 15th overall pick in the 2019 NFL Draft, but he didn’t live up to his lofty status.
A month after his release, the Steelers picked him up, though he did not enter a regular-season game for Pittsburgh.
I got drafted for that reason,” Haskins said in January, according to Steelers.com.
