Kirstie Hopkins, 43, is in a critical condition following the crash in which she is believed to have lost control on a mountain road
Reuters
Kristin Hopkins, a 43-year-old Colorado woman who survived six days trapped in the wreckage of her car after driving off a mountain highway, was listed in critical conditionA woman who survived for six days when her car crashed 140ft off the side of a mountain wrote an SOS message on an umbrella to try and grab people's attention.
Kristin Hopkins, 43, is in a critical condition after she was found in the wreckage of her car nearly a week after her family reported her missing.
She wrote: 'Six days, no food, no water; please help me; need a doctor,' according to the New York Daily News.
Hopkins is expected to survive the crash, but will have to have her feet amputated as a result of the crash in a remote area around 80 miles from Denver, Colorado.
It is believed her car flew through the air and hit several trees before rolling several times down the steep embankment before coming to a rest upside down in a grove of aspen trees.
Park County Undersheriff Monte Gore said that a group of people spotted the wreckage of a car on Sunday while driving along a mountain highway near Red Hill Pass, about 65 miles southwest of Denver, and hiked to the crash site.
The group then returned to their vehicle and drove that afternoon to the sheriff's office, where they reported they had 'found a body in a vehicle,' Gore said.
Gore said when emergency crews reached the site, they found Hopkins alive inside her car.
Trooper Nate Reid, spokesman for the Colorado State Patrol, said Hopkins had been driving southbound on Highway 285 when she lost control of her Chevrolet Malibu around a corner.
Reid said Hopkins was 'conscious and coherent' when rescuers reached her on Sunday.
Hopkins was flown by helicopter to St. Anthony Hospital in suburban Denver, where a spokeswoman said she is listed in critical condition. There were no further details on the nature or extent of her injuries.
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