Grand Forks woman grateful after rollover crash leaves her without a scratch

Quite a lot of us will exit this unending winter with just a few new horror tales about having to drive on icy roads.

A Grand Forks girl definitely has a scary story to inform after a daunting crash earlier this week.

“I am nonetheless sort of in shock,” mentioned Kelly King.

She was making the drive from Fargo to Grand Forks on I-29 Monday. Highway situations have been tough.

“It was actually bumpy, as a result of that is how the ice was, it was patches of ice,” King mentioned. “And I am not used to patches of ice on the freeway.”

She tried to go a semi, however each her and the semi began to swerve. She misplaced management and wound up on the facet of the street close to Gardner, utterly the wrong way up.

“Within the motion pictures, it is at all times like, unconscious, like somebody comes and will get them,” she mentioned. “So I finished for possibly 5 minutes. Additionally, I had an audio guide on, and that is enjoying, and I am like, wait, I would like to show this off. I simply unclip my seatbelt, and I simply walked proper on out like I parked there on goal.”

She could not discover her telephone within the chaos, however fortuitously, a great samaritan named Dwayne pulled up and known as 9/11.

“I am actually grateful for the particular person I had stopped,” King mentioned. “In any other case, I’d be in the course of nowhere on my own.”

Amazingly, Kelly walked away utterly unhurt.

“Earlier within the week, I had fractured my elbow falling on the ice,” she mentioned. “I used to be like, How do I get extra injured strolling than I do flipping my entire automobile? It is so bizarre, however I am fantastic.”

It was a scary expertise, however Kelly says an important factor is nobody acquired damage.

“Once I lastly crashed, and I opened my eyes, I used to be like, thanks, God, thank You, God, thanks, God.”

Mike McGurran has been a reporter and anchor at WDAY-TV since 2021.