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Firefighters rescue a San Juan Capistrano family from a car dangling precariously over a bridge after a fiery crash on Highway 101 near Buellton on January 12, 2012.
(Julian Ramos, Santa Maria Times)
Kelli Groves was reunited with some of the emergency personnel who helped her on the Today Show. In January, an 18-wheeler smashed into the back of her car. Her 10-week-old and 10-year-old daughters were also inside. The truck fell more than 100 feet to the ground, killing the driver. The crash left Groves and her children dangling for more than an hour while rescue crews worked to free them.
At first she says she didn't know if her oldest daughter was alive. "I couldn't see where she had been in the car, I thought for a minute that maybe she had been thrown out, and all I saw was a small patch of her hair smashed through the metal debris and I started tapping her head calling out to her, Sage, answer me, and she wouldn't answer me and she wasn't moving."
Groves had said she hoped to one day thank the rescuers who pulled them to safety.
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