In this case7:06“ It is a strong girl, ‘explains the father of a woman who survived 6 days trapped in a crushed car
A woman from Indiana who crushed her car in a ditch and broke her two legs survived almost a week by diving her clothes in a neighboring stream and sucking the water, explains her father.
Brieonna Cassell, a mother of three 41 -year -olds from Wheatfield, in Ind., Is in the hospital recovering from her injuries after spending six days trapped in her car next to the road, too injured to shout for help, and her phone out of reach.
“She is in a good mood. She is a strong girl,” said her father, Delmar Caldwell, In this case Nile Köksal host. “It’s a better person than me. I don’t think I could have done it for so long.”
Do not answer your phone
Caldwell first had the wind that something was wrong when Cassell’s mother called her last week and said their daughter was not dropping out. He tried to call him himself, and that went directly to vocal messaging.
They therefore contacted his children, aged 16, 21 and 23 years old. But she also did not answer their calls or messages.
“We knew something was wrong,” he said. “I mean, it’s something to ignore her parents, but not her children. She would never do that.”
Once it became clear that she had disappeared, the police started investigating and the family asked for help on social networks.
Caldwell says he spent the week to drive in different cities, following the tracks of people who said they had seen her. He was on his way to a store to check the surveillance images when he received the police call, saying that Cassell had been found alive and was transported by plane to the hospital.
“I had to stop,” he said, his voice breaks. “I had lost it, but I was so grateful and grateful that it was alive. I was starting to lose hope.”
What happened?
It turns out that Cassell fell asleep behind the wheel from a friend’s house. When she woke up, she was at the bottom of a six -meter -deep ditch in Brook, in Ind., Invisible to passing cars.
“She just told me yesterday that she heard vehicles driving all the time,” said Caldwell. “And she was trying to scream, but she had several broken ribs, which made things very difficult.”
Her phone had slipped under the passenger seat, he said, and she couldn’t reach her. It has undergone composed fractures – when the broken bone pierces the skin – in both legs and a wrist.
Finally, his phone’s battery is dead.
“This is why, when we called, it went directly to voicemail,” said Caldwell.
Caldwell says her daughter told her that she had kept warm with a duvet she had on the back seat. During the first two days, she drank a bottle of water she had in her car.
When it exhausted, she had to count on the water of the stream at the bottom of the ditch.
“She was able to open the door on the driver’s side … and she used her good arm to swing her clothes there and soak it, then reassemble it and suck her clothes,” said Caldwell.
Good Samaritan, volunteer firefighters at La Récousse
According to the Newton County Sheriff OfficeIt was a good Samaritan who finally saved the life of Cassell.
Johnny Martinez operated nearby equipment for a drainage company on Tuesday. From his point of view, he spotted Cassell’s car.
Police said he called his supervisor, who arrived at a volunteer firefighters. The two approached the vehicle and saw Cassell inside.
The first stakeholders in three different volunteer fire services helped him out, said the police.
“The county of Newton can be small, but we are powerful – thanks in large part to our volunteer firefighters”, ” The Sherri Shannon Cothran said in an article on social networks. “In my book, Mr. Martinez is a hero, and we can never thank him enough for his lively eye and his rapid action.”
CBC could not reach Martinez to comment. Caldwell says he is trying to organize a meeting to thank him in person.
“I don’t think she would have done it another day,” he said.
A long road to come
Cassell, on the other hand, remains in the intensive care unit. Because his injuries are not treated for so long, Caldwell says doctors try to prevent infection from spreading.
“They work to try to help him keep his legs … and I hope his arm,” said his father.
Cassell’s daughter has created a Go Fund page entitled me “BRIEONNA CASSELL’s Medical Recovery” support to help pay what they are waiting to be a long way to go, including several surgeries.
However, Caldwell says her daughter takes all this in stride. The first thing she did when she left the emergency room, he said, was to eat.
“She ate like a pig,” he said with a little laugh. “She was just going to shovel him as quickly as she could.”
When she arrived at the hospital for the first time, he said that she begged Orange Sherbet. He couldn’t believe it, he said, but they made sure that she had it as soon as the doctors gave the whole – with a more substantial meal, of course.
Whatever happens next, Caldwell says it is just happy that she survived.
“We are very grateful,” he said. “She is alive. She is safe. She is hot.”
