Yahoo Autos Man Rescued After Spending 6 Days Trapped In Truck [Update]
A truck driver in Indiana is lucky to be alive this week after he spent six days in his wrecked truck beneath a freeway bridge.
Matthew R. Reum spent almost a week trapped beneath a bridge on I-94 crossing over Salt Creek near the city of Portage, Indiana. Rescue came in the form of two curious fishermen who spotted something shiny under the bridge while scouting fishing holes, CNN reports:
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Startled, but focused on helping the young man, Garcia asked Delatorre to call for help and the pair stayed with the man until rescuers came to pull him out.
“He was alive and he was very happy to see us,” Garcia said, recalling the man thanking them repeatedly. “I’ve never seen relief like that.”
What a relief it must have been. Reum suffered severe, potentially life threatening injuries in the crash. He screamed for help, but no help came, so he survived on drinking rain water in near freezing conditions. Police told CNN that it’s a miracle Reum survived the December 20 crash, let alone was found before the worst could happen:
Police said they received no reports of a crash and even if they did, the wreckage couldn’t be seen from the bridge.
“I looked over that bridge and you can’t see it,” Fifield said. “I walked down on the east side of the terrain and I am looking and I still couldn’t see it.”
There is no information on what initially caused Reum to crash, however police think his truck missed the guardrail and sailed through the air before landing under the bridge.
[Update: Reum posted on Facebook early Sunday morning, sharing a smiling selfie along with a message and a link to his GoFundMe page:
Let’s break some silence, to everyone, and I mean the hundreds and thousands of people who have tried calling, texting, messaging, commenting, donating, and showing up to things like Corby’s to support me, there will never be enough graditude I can show.
You guys turned an ordinary person who had a miracle happen and made him the most grateful person ever and I can not thank you enough. While me living through this, in and of itself is a Christmas miracle, the generosity I have been shown has grown my heart three sizes this year.
This will be a long road to recovery, and there will be dips and bends and curves. But I feel like with all of you behind me I’ll be able to tackle anything. So for now thank you. And for the future, let’s get this, and Happy New Years
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