'It happened so fast,' Sydney Thomas said. 'I was like, I can't believe this, that I'm really hanging over the river.'
Truck driver recalls harrowing details of Louisville bridge crash, rescue: 'It happened so fast'The female driver of a semi truck that careened off the Clark Memorial Bridge in Louisville, Kentucky is speaking out for the first time since her miraculous 40-minute rescue."I was like, I can't believe this, that I'm really hanging over the river," she said.
It all began when the driver of a pickup truck, 33-year-old Trevor Branham, swerved to avoid a stalled car on the bridge. Branham then slammed into the semi Thomas was driving.The driver of the pickup that swerved, 33-year-old Trevor Branham, is facing a number of charges."I'm going to have to jump. I can't swim either," she told herself. "I didn't know how bad it was.
A crew of firefighters from the Louisville Fire Department rushed to the bridge to help rescue Thomas.Firefighter Bryce Carden reached Thomas first. "He was like, 'Are you a praying woman?' I was like 'Yep,' and we just started praying," she recalled. She added: "Sometimes you pray and I'm guilty of this, I pray and I don't think God is listening, but he was that day."Thomas said she hopes to get back on the road in June.
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