A woman trapped inside her car for three days in NSW wanted to cut her leg off before a boy rescued her. Deborah McKnight's Commodore came to rest down a 15m embankment. Source: Supplied Grandmother Deborah McKnight survived three days of hell.She spent three days hanging upside down with her leg pinned to the door until she was rescued on Thursday evening. The 44-year-old, who had been visiting her daughter in rural New South Wales on Christmas Day, was airlifted to hospital, where her left leg was amputated.
The woman, from the southern NSW town of Tumut, was rescued after a teenager walking his dog past the wrecked car heard her cries and contacted emergency services.She was partly saved because ''where the car was positioned, she would have got the sun in the morning but not in the afternoon,'' Sergeant Hammond said.
Ms McKnight was trapped in the front seat near the door and window of the car, her left leg pinned under metal, according to Tumut mayor and ambulance station manager John Larter, one of three paramedics who helped to release her.
''I think that was just probably more good fortune than anything that she didn't have any other obvious significant injury,'' Mr Larter said.
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