How it happens7:06“She is a strong girl,” says the woman’s father, who survived for 6 days in the crashed car
A woman of Indiana who plunged her car into a ditch and broke both legs for almost a week by showing her clothes into a nearby stream and winding up the water, says her father.
Brieonna Cassell, a 41-year-old mother of three children from Wheatfield, Indiana, recovered in the hospital and recovers her injuries after being caught in her car on the roadside for six days to scream to shout, and her phone out of reach.
“She is in a good mood. She is a strong girl,” said her father, Delmar Caldwell, said How it happens Host Nil Köksal. “She is a better person than me. I don’t think I could have done it for so long.”
Do not answer your phone
Caldwell didn’t get something for the first time when Cassell’s mother called him last week and said her daughter had not picked up her phone. He tried to call her himself and it went straight to VoiceMail.
So they turned to their children aged 16, 21 and 23. But she didn’t answer her calls or messages either.
“We knew something was wrong,” he said. “I think it’s one thing to ignore her parents, but not her children. She would never do that.”
When it became clear that it was missing, the police began to examine, and the family appealed for help on social media.
Caldwell says that he drove to different cities a week to pursue leads of people who said they had seen them. He was on the way to a shop to check surveillance material when he got the call from the police and said Cassell was found alive and was taken to the hospital.
“I had to drive past,” he said, his voice broke. “I had lost it, but I was so grateful and grateful that she was alive. I started losing hope.”
What happened?
It turned out that Cassell had fallen asleep at the helm at the house when it had drove back from a friend’s house. When she woke up, she was invisible to the passing cars at the end of a six -meter -high trench in Brook.
“Yesterday she only told me that she heard the vehicles drive again and again,” said Caldwell. “And she tried to roar, but she had several broken ribs, which made it very difficult.”
Her phone slipped under the passenger seat, he said, and she could not achieve it. It has suffered composed fractures – pierced through the skin as a broken bone – in both legs and a wrist.
Finally your telephone battery died.
“That’s why when we called, it went directly to VoiceMail,” said Caldwell.
Caldwell says his daughter told him that she kept warm with a duvet she had in the back seat. In the first few days she drank water she had in her car from a bottle of water.
When that went, she had to rely on the stream water on the bottom of the trench.
“She was able to open the driver’s side door … and she used her good arm to swing her clothes down there and get her wet, and then pulled it up again and sucked the water out of her clothes,” said Caldwell.
Good Samaritan, volunteer firefighters of the rescue
According to the Sheriff office of Newton CountyIt was a good Samaritan who ultimately saved Cassell’s life.
Johnny Martinez was set up for a drainage company nearby on Tuesday. He discovered Cassell’s car from his viewpoint.
The police said he called his supervisor who happened to a volunteer fire chief. The two approached the vehicle and saw cassell inside.
First aiders from three different volunteers helped get them out, the police said.
“Newton County may be small, but we are powerful – thanks to our volunteer firefighters.” Sheriff Shannon Cothran said in a social media contribution. “In my book, Mr. Martinez is a hero, and we can never thank him enough for his sharp eye and his fast action.”
CBC could not reach Martinez for a comment. Caldwell says he tries to arrange a meeting to thank him personally.
“I don’t think she would have made it a day,” he said.
A long way to
Cassell remains in the intensive care unit. Because her wounds were untreated for so long, Caldwell says that doctors try to prevent infection.
“You are working to help her keep her legs … and hopefully her arm,” said her father.
Cassell’s daughter has created a Go Fund Me page entitled “Support Brieonna Cassell’s medical recovery” to pay for what you expect will be a long way in front of you, including several operations.
Nevertheless, Caldwell says that his daughter takes everything intensely. The first thing she did when she got out of the emergency room was Eat.
“She ate like a pig,” he said with a giggle. “She would just drain it as soon as possible.”
When she arrived in the hospital for the first time, he said she begged for orange -colored Sherbet. He couldn’t believe it, he says, but they made sure that she got some as soon as the doctors gave the all-clear together with a more extensive meal.
Whatever happens next, Caldwell says that he was only glad that she survived.
“We are so grateful,” he said. “She lives. She is safe. She is warm.”
