Lynnell McFarland’s car became lodged between two trees, trapping the retired nurse after she struck the dashboard and suffered fractures to her arm and knee.
A retired nurse used her faith and medical skills to survive after her car skidded off a section of Washington state road called “Dead Man’s Corner” and she wound up trapped in a ravine for five days, reports said.
Earlier this month, she said from her bed at Providence St. Joseph Care Center in Spokane that she “could feel my parents’ arms around me.” The next day, Amanda caught a bus home to care for her dogs while her mom waited for the car and left on the fateful trip in the evening, the paper reported.“I knew I was going downhill, when it happened. And I thought I went straight down, but what actually happened was my car went head over heels,” she told the paper.A day after the accident, she said, a police officer got tantalizingly close to her after her daughter reported her missing — but didn’t see her trapped car in the ravine below.
Lynnell McFarland kept herself alive by licking rainwater that had accumulated on the plastic bags used for her shelter.“I had winter boots on the front floorboard. My phone was on the front floorboard,” she told the Spokesman-Review. “I had water bottles on the front floorboard. I couldn’t reach any of them.”Meanwhile, Amanda kept calling her out-of-reach phone after filing a missing-person’s report and making a plea on Facebook.
Eventually, the FBI tracked her mother to a remote spot that some call “Dead Man’s Corner,” KHQ reported. “Her wrist was broken, and her bones were sticking out of her body. And she knew she had fractures, maybe her pelvis and all these other places,” the daughter told KHQ.
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