Indiana man describes surviving 6 days trapped in wreckage with an injured leg that would be partially amputated
A man who survived six days trapped in a pickup that veered off an Indiana highway recounted the factors of his survival while vowing to cherish a new chance at life.
A man who survived six days trapped in a pickup truck that veered off an Indiana highway and came to rest under an overpass unseen recounted the factors of his survival while vowing to cherish a new chance at life.
Matthew Reum, 27, was discovered trapped in the mangled truck in a shallow creek in Portage, Indiana, on Dec. 26 by a man and his son-in-law, who were looking for a fishing hole along Interstate 94.
Rushed by helicopter to a trauma center, Reum was in life-threatening condition. He had suffered a broken hand and a broken leg and ultimately had the other leg amputated above the shin, he said.
Still, Reum, a journeyman welder from South Bend, is embracing life with a new perspective.
"I get in the helicopter, and my brain's like, you made it — you're alive," he said in an exclusive interview after his release from the hospital. "It still took me a couple days even after that to realize the full reality of everything, you know."
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