PROVIDENCE — It was probably just a joke — the kind of thing a teenage girl says when you make fun of her.

But Sharon Beaudette Achorn, who lost her 16-year-old daughter Samantha Marie Beaudette in a fiery car crash on Route 95 in Pawtucket a year ago, can’t remember her daughter’s snappy comeback without thinking that Samantha foresaw her own death.

“She’d sing in the car. I’d tell her how awful she sounded. And she’d say, ‘One day, you’re going to miss me,’” Achorn said.

Yesterday, Achorn, accompanied by her husband Dana and Samantha’s friends and family members, sat in Superior Court and watched while 28-year-old Kellie Woodbine, of Cumberland, who was behind the wheel of the pickup truck that crashed and burned in the accident, was arraigned on one count each of driving while intoxicated, death resulting, and driving to endanger, death resulting.

Achorn shed tears, but they weren’t for Woodbine, who was severely burned in the accident, and whose face bears the scars.

The tears were for Samantha, who would have turned 17 in mid-October, and who left two brothers, Raymond, 15, and Jason, 20, and an older sister, Kaily, 19.

The accident occurred near the Broadway overpass of Route 95 about 12:40 a.m. Dec. 30, 2005. Samantha, trapped in the wreckage, was more severely burned than Woodbine, Achorn said.

On New Year’s Eve, she underwent surgery at Rhode Island Hospital, and began to rally after both her legs were amputated, Achorn said. For a few hours, she said, there were hopes Samantha would survive.

“Then, after midnight, her vital signs started to go down, and she died of heart failure,” Achorn said.

Monday was the first anniversary of the death. Samantha’s friends and family gathered in the parking lot along Broadway that overlooks the accident site.

Pink and black balloons were released, and a banner commemorating Samantha was put up.

Samantha Marie Beaudette was a popular Darlington Braves cheerleader and former Tolman High School student who was being home-schooled.

“Her big thing was to make you laugh, even at her own expense,” Achorn said. A family photograph shows the attractive 16-year-old making a monkey face, crossing her eyes, twisting her mouth and pulling her ears.

When Samantha got in trouble, it was always minor, Achorn said. “The worst thing she ever did — and we laugh about it now — she wrote her name in cement and she got caught, and the police took her in, and we had to pay a fine.”

Occasionally, Achorn said, Samantha would break her 11 p.m. curfew. “In my eyes,” she said, “she was as perfect a kid as you can be and be 16 at the same time.”

The night of the accident, Achorn said, Samantha had gone to sleep over at a friend’s house. She was supposed to stay there, but the friend was dating Woodbine’s stepson. They went over to Woodbine’s apartment on Appleton Avenue, where there was a party because the family was about to move.

Achorn said she was sure there was drinking at the party. “It was a moving party,” she said. “That’s what you do at a moving party. You drink.”

At some point, Kellie Woodbine decided to go out for cigarettes and asked someone to accompany her, Achorn said. Samantha volunteered.

“She had a big heart. She was a good kid. She’d do anything for anybody,” Achorn said.

It was on the way back, the state police said, that Woodbine lost control of her pickup truck and got into the fiery crash that left Samantha fatally injured.

Nearly a year went by before Woodbine was charged in the accident. Her lawyer, Steven D. DiLibero, said she spent most of it in the hospital, and still has a long way to go before she recovers.

DiLibero and his co-counsel, Artin H. Coloian, declined to comment on Achorn’s account of the events that led up to the accident.

“It’s a sad case. It’s sad for both sides,” DiLibero said.