Arizona Girl, 3, Survives Days in Wrecked Frigid Car (w/dead mom)

[Whoa_Nelly]

PHOENIX (Reuters) - A 3-year-old girl survived on little more than crackers - apparently up to five days - while huddled near her dead mother inside a wrecked car amid freezing temperatures in eastern Arizona, authorities said on Tuesday.
In what law enforcement officials called a miracle, Angel Emery was reported to be in good condition at Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix after she was found by an alert motorist who spotted the car off the roadway near Globe, Arizona.

She was being treated for dehydration and frostbite.

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=4222342

Heard on NPR that the child's toes were extremely frostbitten. Also, the family dog was killed in the crash.

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. This link shows pic of the car

Poor baby...:-( What a horrible ordeal for such a little one to go through, but am glad she is alive.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/news/012704_nw_child_survives.html

[UpInArms]

2. am glad the little

girl survived - Angel was appropriately named -

:(

[ahimsa]

3. The "passerby" was the angel..

.. I shudder to think how many people may have noticed the car and didn't think it was worthy of a second thought? O8)

[Whoa_Nelly]

4. You're so right ,ahisma

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[stevedeshazer]

5. That kid needs hugs

I sure hope she has a functional family support unit of some kind.

And big props to the alert motorist. That is some remote place.