Woman survives 8 days in Honda Element after crash!!

[HONDA GHANDI]

Dayummm!
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/28/woman.found.ap/index.html

[jackmode9316]

Thats insane! She basically got bed sores from staying there so long. I couldn't even imagine. Her husband must have been flipping his wig too! I know I would have.

[hatchbackgirl]

wow, she's lucky to be alive! she couldn't have survived too many more days without food and water.

[Jackrabbit]

Wow.

[Slava]

WOW

[HONDA GHANDI]

Makes me want to put a 72hour pack in my car. Which I should have anyway for other reasons but Damn, thats one tough chick.

[Brandon]

dayuum, can you imagine what would be going through your head at the end of the day.....and then a week later.

[HondaPower]

Crazy

[asianjkim]

THANK GOD FOR HONDA'S! LOL

[Slava]

I like how the husband was taking the lie detector test. And he says that he was doing it so the cops can concentrate their resources on finding her. Also its hard to believe that no one saw or hear a car go down 20 feet.

[Kwando]

thats crazy... lets all go out and build our survival pack.

[Brandon]

Also its hard to believe that no one saw or hear a car go down 20 feet.

Maybe on I-25 but it's not that hard to believe if it was a rural road.

[M@]

I like how the husband was taking the lie detector test. And he says that he was doing it so the cops can concentrate their resources on finding her.

Makes sense to me. Eliminates him as being a suspect, thus one less thing they would have had to focus on.

[Bedlam]

thats crazy... lets all go out and build our survival pack.

Well..if you are "trapped" in your car..where are you going to put a survival pack in your car that you can reach it? My audi has a HUGE glove box I suppose..but I think anything other than maybe a few bottles of water, beef cubes, maybe energy bars or something may be tough.

Weird that she wasnt injured much and couldnt get out of her car? Unless she was knocked out for multiple days..seems kinda odd?

[stu]

Sounds like a marketing gimmick for Honda...

[M@]

Haha.

[honda1982]

Wow!!! in a Honda Element.

[HONDA GHANDI]

Doctor: Woman Trapped in Car Doing Well

By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP, Associated Press Writer

3 hours ago UPDATED 2 HOURS 36 MINUTES AGO
SEATTLE - A woman who spent eight days trapped in a wrecked vehicle has severe injuries, but her brain function is normal and she can move her arms and legs, her physician said Friday.
Tanya Rider, 33, was found alive but dehydrated at the bottom of a steep ravine in suburban Maple Valley on Thursday, more than a week after she failed to return home from work. After being cut out of her SUV by rescuers, she was taken to Seattle's Harborview Medical Center, where she was in critical condition.
Dr. Lisa McIntyre said during a hospital news conference Friday that while Rider was doing better, she's "not out of the woods yet." McIntyre said Rider's kidneys failed because of toxins from a muscle injury in the crash and dehydration. She was being treated with intravenous fluids.
Rider was sedated and on a ventilator, McIntyre said. In addition to her kidney failure, she wife was being treated for extensive sores from lying in the same position for a week and nearly had to have a leg amputated, said her husband, Tom Rider.
Her husband also said Friday he was frustrated by the red tape he had to fight to get authorities to launch a search for his wife more than a week after she disappeared.
"She's a fighter, obviously," Rider said. "She fought to stay alive in the car and she's fighting now."
Authorities found the Maple Valley woman after detecting the general location of her cell phone Thursday morning, then searching along Highway 169 near Renton, southeast of Seattle, the route she took home from work. They noticed some matted brush, and below it found Rider's vehicle, smashed on its side, State Patrol spokesman Jeff Merrill said.
Tanya Rider left work at a Fred Meyer grocery store in Bellevue on Sept. 19 but never made it home. When her husband couldn't reach her, he said, he called Bellevue police to report his wife missing.

Bellevue police took the report right away, but when they found video of Tanya Rider getting into her car after work, they told her husband the case was out of their jurisdiction and he should notify King County, he said. Tom Rider said he tried that, but "the first operator I talked to on the first day I tried to report it flat denied to start a missing persons report because she didn't meet the criteria," he said.

"I basically hounded them until they started a case and then, of course, I was the first focal point, so I tried to get myself out of the way as quickly as possible. I let them search the house. I told them they didn't have to have a warrant for anything, just ask," he said.
Thursday morning, detectives asked him to come in to sign for a search of phone records. They also asked him to take a polygraph test.
"By the time he was done explaining the polygraph test to me, the detective burst into the room with a cell phone map that had a circle on it," he said.
His wife's car tumbled about 20 feet down a ravine and lay buried below brush and blackberry bushes. The air bags deployed, but she was injured and trapped. Rescuers had to cut the roof off to get her out.
"I know there were delays (in finding her) because of red tape," Tom Rider said.
Tom Rider said he also drove the route where his wife was found but didn't see any sign of a crash. He also offered a $25,000 reward for any information leading to her safe return.
Authorities said they followed procedure in the case.
"It's not that we didn't take him seriously," Deputy Rodney C. Chinnick said. "We don't take every missing person report on adults. ... If we did, we'd be doing nothing but going after missing person reports."
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[HONDA GHANDI]

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[Nick_S]

Damn crazy.

[Pang]

Hope she gets well soon, wOw!