A mother in Colorado is amazingly still alive after being trapped in her mangled car for nearly a week.
Amazingly, a mother in Colorado is still alive after being trapped in her mangled car for nearly a week. 43-year-old Kristin Hopkins disappeared at the end of April.
A report was filed and she was soon registered as a missing person, but no active searches took place. Little did her concerned friends and family know that she was very much alive, stuck in her wrecked vehicle.
Her car had somehow driven off the highway and went airborne for 40 yards before hitting the ground and rolling another 200 feet.
When the vehicle finally stopped tumbling, it was resting on its roof, lodged in between trees.
She spent a little under a week trapped inside the wreckage without food or water. Motorists spotted her on May 4th and contacted emergency crews.
One of the firefighters who responded to the scene saw several notes Hopkins wrote as a desperate plea for help. She jotted down the pleas with a Sharpie on the white sections of a striped umbrella and then stuck it out her open window hoping someone would be able to see it.
The rescuers were shocked to find Hopkins still alive. She was pulled from the car and transported to the hospital where her condition was initially listed as critical but stable.
Reportedly, doctors had to amputate her feet due to her extensive injuries, but her overall outlook is good.
