A Bridgeport mom is speaking publicly for the first time about a car crash on Mother's Day that left her 19-year-old daughter, Dashauna Williams, critically injured.

Tameka Baxter says the teen was in the backseat of a car that somehow lost control and went down an embankment near Exit 39B on I-95 North in Milford, crashing into trees.

Dashauna, a cheerleading coach at César Batalla School in Bridgeport, which she herself attended, arrived at Gaylord Hospital in Wallingford Wednesday after spending almost two months at Yale New Haven Hospital, Baxter said.

"She has a long road ahead of her, but we have every faith that she will make a full recovery," Baxter said. "From the beginning I believed God was a miracle worker -- and now I know He is a miracle worker because he has proven through my daughter that these things are possible," the mom said.

The cause of the crash, which left the car's other two occupants with injuries that were not considered life-threatening, remains under investigation.

The family has started a GoFundMe to help with the teen's long-term recovery.