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A woman was trapped for three days in her car after it plunged down an embankment on Christmas Day in Tumut, in New South Wales, Australia.
By msnbc.com staff
A woman who crashed her car on Christmas Day survived for three days with her leg pinned in the wreckage after it plunged off an embankment in southern Australia, according to local reports.
Debbie McKnight, 45, was driving home from her daughter's house in Tumut, New South Wales when she swerved to avoid a kangaroo and careened off the road. Her car flipped and landed 26 feet below on its roof, trapping her inside, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.
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Paramedics attend to the scene of a car that crashed off Wondalga Road and pinned a woman inside for three days. A local youth heard her cry for help on Wednesday night and called emergency services.
Local teenager Caleb Wilks found her late Wednesday when he walked past the wreck and heard her screaming for help, Sky News Australia reported.
"Otherwise we wouldn't have found her," Sergeant Brian Hammond told Sky.
McKnight was flown to Canberra Hospital where surgeons amputated her leg. She is in stable condition.
"She was so desperate she was actually going to cut off her leg herself but she couldn't find anything sharp enough," Hammond said.
The Ambulance Service of New South Wales said the pressure from the car on her leg likely acted as a tourniquet and stopped any life-threatening bleeding.
Tumut's mayor John Larter told the Sydney Morning Herald that McKnight was fortunate to have survived.
"As anyone would be in a vehicle lying upside-down for three days over Christmas, I imagine anyone would have been distressed," Larter said. "You'd be missing your family over Christmas and I suppose you'd be wondering when somebody was going to come and rescue you."
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