Newfoundland woman describes harrowing rollover on remote highway with no cell service
CBC
A woman from a remote southern Newfoundland outport says she narrowly escaped with her life after a highway accident left her trapped with no cell service.
Kelly Willcott of St. Alban's was on her way to a routine appointment in Grand Falls-Windsor last week, but left a little earlier than usual to account for heavy rain.
"I knew there was going to be water on the road. Wasn't expecting it to be built up like it was," Willcott said.
"My wipers would not keep the water off of the windshield."
Willcott drove carefully over a bridge along Highway 360, taking her foot off the gas. She knew the road ahead was notorious for accumulating puddles.
And if the worst happened, there'd be nobody around to help.
"I veered over towards the white line. I couldn't see out my windshield," she said. "That's why I did that, because if there was oncoming traffic coming, I wouldn't have seen them."
That's when she hit the puddle.
"I just remember fishtailing across the road and I was trying to straighten her up. I know better than to yank the wheel, so I didn't yank it. I just, you know, pulled it a little bit, but I guess it was still too much," Willcott said.
"I mean, she was going to go wherever she was going to go. And I just remember seeing the ditch on the right hand side of the road coming at me."
Willcott can't remember whether the truck flipped first and then rolled twice, or the other way around.
Either way, she says, she was "shaken around like a rag doll," powerless to stop the vehicle.
"I just closed my eyes and just waited," she said.
When the truck finally stopped rolling, Willcott opened her eyes. She was hanging upside down, still buckled in, her truck firmly in a large ditch off the side of the road.
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