Watch TX Crews Save Woman Trapped in Truck above Ground

Sept. 22, 2020

Austin firefighters and Austin-Travis County EMS medics responded to a one-vehicle crash that left a woman caught between two retaining walls and hanging 6 feet above the ground.

By Kelsey Bradshaw

Source Austin American-Statesman

Austin, TX, firefighters rescued a woman who was trapped in her pickup truck between two retaining walls following a one-vehicle crash early Tuesday.

A woman was rescued early Tuesday from a white pickup truck that was trapped between two retaining walls in Northeast Austin, officials said.

Austin-Travis County EMS medics responded to the northbound service road of the 6500 block of Interstate 35 at 11:28 p.m. on Monday for a reported collision involving one vehicle.

The truck was found to be roughly 6 feet in the air, medics said.

A KXAN video shows Austin firefighters pulling the woman through the truck’s driver’s side window and onto the ground.

The woman was freed from the truck by around 12:14 a.m. with minor injuries that were not considered life-threatening, according to medics.

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