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Ind. woman, trapped in crash, survives 6 days on creek water

Cassell, reported missing days earlier, was found trapped in a ditch with severe leg injuries after falling asleep at the wheel

Associated Press

BROOK, Ind. 鈥 An Indiana woman who was trapped in her car with severe leg injuries survived for nearly a week by sucking water from a sweatshirt that she dipped into a small creek, authorities said.

A man operating drainage equipment saw Brieonna Cassell鈥檚 car off a road Tuesday near the town of Brook, Newton County Sheriff Shannon Cothran said in a post on social media.

The man told his supervisor, who is also a fire chief, and they found Cassell inside the car, conscious and able to speak, according to the sheriff. Multiple agencies responded, and the 41-year-old Wheatfield woman was extricated and flown to a Chicago hospital, he said.

Cassell had been reported missing by family members days before she was found, the sheriff said. She had been trapped since Thursday night when she fell asleep at the wheel and veered off the road into a ditch, her father, Delmar Caldwell, . Her vehicle wasn鈥檛 visible from the road.

Caldwell told the news outlet that Cassell had injuries to her legs and wrist and that her phone was found under the passenger seat.

鈥淪he was stuck in the car and could not get out,鈥 Caldwell said. 鈥淏ut she was able to reach the water from the car,鈥 Caldwell said.

She was able to dip her hooded sweatshirt into the water and get it to her mouth that way, he said.

On Wednesday, Cassell was in stable condition at the hospital and was scheduled to have surgery 鈥渁s there is some concern with the healing of her legs,鈥 according to Cassell鈥檚 mother, who told Cothran, the sheriff, that he could share her status on social media.

Both of her legs are broken and so is her wrist, according to a post on a GoFundMe fundraising site set up to help pay her medical bills. Family members spent the days in which she was missing searching for her, walking for miles along roads and ditches, the post said.

鈥淗er outlook for recovery is good but it will be a long road to recovery,鈥 the sheriff said.

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