re: Woman missing after single vehicle wreck UPDATE 1: found safe UPDATE 2: releases statement

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Had a bit of a similar issue with regard to disappearance. Had a drunk driver hit my wife and I, sending us across the road into a tree. He flipped his vehicle and it landed in a field. 

He crawled out, grabbed his gun, and ran off. Wasn't found by the police, turned himself in 4 days later. All he got charged with was fleeing the scene. 6 days in jail. That's it.

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Injured, lost, barefoot and alone: A Chelsea mom survives on prayer

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Injured, lost, barefoot and alone: A Chelsea mom survives on prayer

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A Chelsea mother who spent about 35 hours lost in Shelby County woods after a car crash remembers most of the ordeal, and said she survived praying trying to find a way to safety.

Lisa Holman, 45, was found alive Sunday morning after crashing at 9:30 p.m. Friday on County Road 36 in Pelham. Her rescue ended a frightful weekend when her family feared the worst.

"Believe in the power of prayer,'' Holman's sister, Kathy Holman Caufield, told AL.com Monday. "I believe angels were watching over her and protecting her every step of the way. I don't have any shadow of doubt about that."

Holman was traveling from visiting a friend in Helena when, about one mile from home, lost control of her car in a dark curve on rain-slicked roads and careened down a 20-foot embankment.

She knew she had crashed, and put the car in park, her sister said. Then she lost consciousness. "She doesn't know for how long but when she came to, she thought the car might explode and she knew she had to get out,'' Caufield said.

There was no way for her to get out of the driver's side door. It was smashed and unusable. Not knowing that she had a badly-broken clavicle (the bone connecting the shoulder to the breastbone), six cracked ribs, a fractured C7 vertebrae, and a lacerated spleen, Holman climbed into the back seat and freed herself through a rear door.

"She stumbled out of the car and went 10 or so feet, put her purse down and decided she needed to try to find help,'' Caufield said. She placed her purse, which held her cell phone, back in the car and kicked off her Yellow Box wedge sandals so she wouldn't turn her ankle walking for help.

Holman walked for a while, but eventually realized she should have already reached help. "She turned around thinking she was going back to where her car was,'' Caufield said. "She ended up at a marshy area, but she didn't want to walk through that. It was actually right beside her car."

"She then turned around to go another direction and that is when she started heading 180 degrees away from the road,'' Caufield said. "She said just wandered that whole first night."

At daybreak, before the heavy rains started again, Holman found a rock overhang. "She said, 'I couldn't walk anymore, and I was hurt,''' her sister said. "She crouched under there like an animal would have. She said she slept off and on. She said time passed quicker than you would have thought."

Holman recalls watching some squirrels for a bit but told family she didn't spend her time just enjoying nature. "She said she prayed the entire time,'' she said. "She just knew she had to get out and get help."

But Holman thought about it more and decided maybe she should stay put. "She was scared to leave that shelter,'' Caufield said. "She said she never worried about animals, like coyotes, or snakes, or spiders or ant beds."
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here, she was a mere 200 yards from the car

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