An 81-year-old woman spent four hours trapped underneath her car in the pouring rain before she was miraculously found by her husband — after he was dropped off by a cab and heard her cries.
Peggy Wilbur was pinned against a rock and the ground after the car, which had been accidentally left in neutral, rolled on top of her outside of her home in Hingham, Mass., on Friday night, WHDH reported.
She suffered serious injuries and was stuck there for hours bracing the elements until her husband, Norman Wilbur, was dropped off at his home in the cab.
“I walked around, and I heard, ‘Help. Help.’ I said… ‘Peggy, is that you?’ And I looked. I couldn’t even see her because the car was up against it,” Norman Wilbur told WHDH.
Norman called 911 and firefighters from the Hingham Fire Department arrived in minutes.
They used airbags and a spreading safety tool to lift the car off Peggy.
Peggy was rushed to the South Shore Hospital with serious injuries to her chest and legs and is now looking at a long recovery, her husband said.
“She’ll be 82 this week, so she’s no spring chicken, as they say, but she’s a tough old Irish girl,” he joked.
Firefighters said they offered their thoughts and prayers to Peggy and her family in a social media post.
