Trapped grandmother on the mend

Deborah McKnight

Deborah McKnight is recovering after her being freed from her crashed car after three days. Pic: Gary Ramage
Source: The Daily Telegraph




A GRANDMOTHER who survived 75 hours trapped underneath her car in the Snowy Mountains stabilised yesterday.


Deborah McKnight’s condition improved after one of her legs was amputated. She told police she tried to cut it off as she lay trapped beneath her Holden Commodore after it flipped down an embankment on an isolated country road near Tumut in the Snowy Mountains on Christmas Day.

NSW Police and Emergency Services confirmed it was reviewing its 000 records after her mobile phone showed she dialled the number six times.

But it is believed the calls did not connect because of poor coverage before the battery ran out.

A Canberra Hospital spokeswoman said she had been reclassified from critical to stable.

Ms McKnight yesterday sold her story to Channel 9’s A Current Affair.

It is expected to be a windfall for Ms McKnight, who is unemployed, but police yesterday said the family may face a bill to extricate her car.

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