Alabama Woman Found Wandering Through Woods 35 Hours After Horrific Car Crash

Lisa Holman was barely one mile away from her Alabama home when she suddenly lost control of her vehicle and crashed through a rainy embankment.

According to PEOPLE, after hitting a tree Holman, 45, spent the next 35 hours fighting for her life while she waited to be rescued in Shelby County woods.

Pelham authorities revealed in a news conferred than Holman crashed her car around 10 p.m. Friday on County Road 36, resulting in a number of serious injuries: six cracked ribs, a broken clavicle, a fractured vertebrae, and a lacerated spleen.

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“She was confused. She was down in a hole. It was very dark,” Pelham Police Chief Larry Palmer said at the news conference, adding that Holman likely passed out at one point. “When she woke up, she realized she needed to get out of the car. Something told her to get out.”

According to AL.com, when she finally came to, Holman climbed out of the back door of her car and began walking toward what she thought had to be the road.

It didn’t take long, however, before the severely injured woman realized she had gone the wrong way and wandered deeper into the woods.

“She said, ‘I couldn’t walk anymore, and I was hurt,’ ” Holman’s sister, Kathy Holman Caufield, said, according to AL.com. “She crouched under [a rock] like an animal would have. She said she slept off and on. She said time passed quicker than you would have thought.”

“She said she never worried about animals, like coyotes, or snakes, or spiders or ant beds,” Caufield added.

It was Holman’s own son, 17-year-old Jackson, who ultimately discovered her crashed car and called authorities once he realized his mother was not inside.

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“We put first our K9 back in the area in hopes of picking up a scent trail,” Palmer said at the news conference. “Our drones to see anything that we could from the air and then we put our search teams in. The first search team that went in located her just a few minutes later by calling out her name and she answered.”

Finally, around 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, investigators found Holman and took her straight to the hospital to be treated for her injuries.

Authorities say it’s an absolute “miracle” that Holman is still alive after her 35-hour ordeal in the woods.

The stunned mom has since met two of the 500 volunteers who helped find her, and the family later thanked those who took the time to search for Holman.

“Needless to say, the last two days have been very emotional for our family; Lisa’s rescue Sunday morning was definitely an answered prayer,” the family said in a statement released on the police department’s Facebook page.

“Amazingly, she has suffered only a few broken bones and other minor injuries as a result of the accident. Her ability to withstand these injuries, the weather conditions, and the length of time in the woods is a testament to her resiliency,” the relieved family added.