cbc.ca/radio – An Indiana woman who crashed her car into a ditch and broke both her legs survived nearly a week by dipping her clothes into a nearby creek and sucking up the water, says her father.
Brieonna Cassell, a 41-year-old mother of three from Wheatfield, Ind., is in hospital recovering from her injuries after spending six days trapped in her car by the side of the road, too injured to scream for help, and her phone out of reach.
“She’s in good spirits. She’s a strong girl,” her father, Delmar Caldwell, told As It Happens host Nil Köksal. “She’s a better person than I am. I don’t think I could have made it that long.”
Not answering her phone
Caldwell first got wind something was wrong when Cassell’s mother called him last week and said their daughter was not picking up her phone. He tried calling her himself, and it went straight to voicemail.
So they reached out to her kids, aged 16, 21 and 23. But she didn’t answer their calls or messages either.
“We knew something was wrong,” he said. “I mean, it’s one thing to ignore her parents, but not her children. She would never do that.”
Firefighters and others huddled outside a helicopter in a field.
First responders from Newton County Sheriff’s Office and three volunteer fire departments help get a badly injured woman into an air ambulance after she spent six days trapped in her car in a ditch. (Newton County Sheriff’s Office/Facebook )
Once it became clear she was missing, police started investigating, and the family appealed for help on social media.
Caldwell says he spent the week driving to different towns, following up on leads from folks who said they had seen her …
