Chapter 22Other men struggled to get the bent and stuck driver's side door opened. Absent more powerful equipment, they used crowbars. Finally, the metal groaned and the door stuck straight up in the air above her. A fireman forced it backward till it lay against the front fender. The unique squeal and crackling of metal bending told how badly her car was damaged.
A fireman leaned into the car above her and cut the seat belt, then gently lifted and freed her twisted legs.
A backboard was slid in place outside the windshield area. Great relief flooded her when the seatbelt clip no longer painfully pressured her hip. Two other men eased her out through the vacant windshield opening and onto the backboard and quickly fastened straps over her. A medic started a saline IV and kept track of he
