Last Thursday evening, a 29-year-old Utah County woman was hospitalized after being trapped in a car for two-days after a crash in American Fork Canyon, Utah.
Utah Woman Survives Two-Days Trapped in Car After Driving Off Mountainside
At some point last Tuesday, Heather Blackwelder’s car had gone through a guardrail and fell several hundred feet down the side of the mountain.
Utah County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Spencer Cannon said, “Somebody going by, driving by, riding by on a motorcycle, riding by even on a bicycle — would have been very little chance of them to hear her, and almost zero chance for them to see her.”
But someone heard her. Dryden and Jackson were taking pictures when they heard Blackwelder calling for help.
“I saw the car eventually and I headed straight towards the car, you know, and I told her, you know, ‘I’m your help,'” Dryden said. “The first thought that came to my mind was let her … be in one piece, which she was.”
“Had it been much longer, we could’ve been talking about a very different outcome,” Cannon said. “She’s really fortunate right now,” he said.
Authorities report she is being treated at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo, and is stable.
Utah Woman Survives Two-Days Trapped in Car After Driving Off Mountainside
SOURCE: NBC
