Stranded for 5 days after Colorado highway crash, a woman loses her feet and has managed to survive. The woman from Fairplay, Colo. is now recovering after being stranded for 5 days after Colorado highway crash southwest of Denver.
The woman is 43-year-old Kristin Hopkins, a single mother with four children. She miraculously survived a great ordeal of being stranded for five days after Colorado highway crash southwest of Denver, reports Santa Fe New Mexican.
Hopkins said that while stranded for 5 days after Colorado highway crash, she wrote pleas for help on a red-and-white umbrella. She managed to push this through a broken window of her crashed car and after that, kept hope that it will attract enough attention from drivers on the highway above.
According to the Associated Press, passersby were able to spot Hopkins' car about 80 feet below in an aspen grove. The passersby stopped Sunday on scenic U.S. Highway 285 near Fairplay, and that's when they saw Hopkins' car stranded for 5 days after Colorado highway crash. Authorities say that at least one motorist hiked down from Red Hill Pass on U.S. Highway 285 and alerted them on Sunday about the body inside the car.
The Park County Sheriff's Office said rescuers found Hopkins alive, conscious and coherent inside her flipped car. However, she was extremely dehydrated and critically injured after being stranded for 5 days after Colorado highway crash.
ABC Local reports that she was flown by helicopter to St. Anthony Hospital in suburban Denver, Park County, according to undersheriff Monte Gore. Hospital Spokeswoman Loralee Sturm said Monday that Hopkins was in critical condition. Her family issued a statement saying she will lose both her feet because of injuries sustained in the crash.
According to reports, Hopkins was last seen leaving work on April 27 and was reported missing in suburban Denver on Tuesday. This was reportedly the same day that the Colorado State Patrol says her car went off the right side of the road on a curve. The accident reportedly happened under a spot overlooking the extensive ranchlands and surrounding mountains of Colorado's South Park area.
Her 2009 Chevrolet Malibu reportedly hit sveral trees and rolled a couple of times before landing on its top. After that, she was stranded for 5 days after Colorado highway crash.
According to the Associated Press, when rescuers were able to reach the car on Sunday, firefighter Jim Cravener asked a colleague to break a window and feel for a pulse. Cravener said, "He started to break the window and she put her hand up to the window. At that point, it became a rescue." He added that the note on the umbrella was hard to read, but that it said, "six days, no food, no water; please help me; need a doctor. It's really something off that 'Shouldn't Be Alive' show. She really had a strong will to survive."
Cravener said her extrication from the vehicle after being stranded for 5 days after Colorado highway crash was complicated. This is because of the location. Rescuers still managed to cut into the vehicle and pull out Hopkins to take her to the helicopter. Although responsive, rescuers saw Hopkins' face was badly bruised, possibly by the steering wheel or air bag. Cravener said, "She didn't talk a whole lot. She started to become less responsive as we carried her down the hill. We had to keep waking her up."
Stranded for 5 days after Colorado highway crash, Hopkins proved that the will to survive can be powerful. It was just by chance that somebody stopped at the site during this time of the year, said Cravener. Hopkins' family thanked people for their thoughts and prayers.
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