Tuesday afternoon update:
SEYMOUR, Texas (AP) _ A 75-year-old woman says she couldn’t walk after crashing her car into a ravine in North Texas, but survived for two days after pulling herself through a broken windshield and soaking her T-shirt in a nearby pond to get water. Wanda Mobley (MAH’-blee) told The Associated Press from her hospital
room Tuesday that she could hear vehicles passing on the road above but was weak and worried she’d get lost trying to crawl up the ravine. She suffered a fractured back.
Original story:
SEYMOUR, Texas (AP) _ A 75-year-old woman has been found alive after crashing her car into a North Texas ravine and surviving for two days on soda and oily water.
Relatives say Wanda Mobley left her home in Brownwood, Texas, on Friday, headed for McAlester, Oklahoma. They filed a missing person report when she failed to arrive at her destination.
Family members located Mobley near Seymour early Sunday, after investigators told them that her cellphone last pinged in that area. Seymour is 160 miles northwest of Dallas.
Mobley says she survived on Sprite and oily water that dripped from her car.
Mobley was taken to a Wichita Falls hospital to be treated for bruises and a fractured lower back.