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Amanda Butterfield ReportingElizabeth Devlin, Survivor: "I feel like I should not be here today."
It was a horrible scene with two dead in a mass of twisted metal, but inside it all was a survivor. This is her story.
Monday's collision on Main Street in Lehi involved several cars, including a flat-bed semi loaded with sod. Elizabeth Devlin was in one of those cars.
All Elizabeth can remember is she was going to the grocery store to get avocados.
Elizabeth Devlin: "Last thing I remember was waking up here in the hospital."
It's probably for the best Elizabeth doesn't remember any of it. She was driving in that yellow bug when the semi truck hit the white car.
Elizabeth Devlin: "I know the semi rolled on the top of my car, but I don't remember anything from the accident at all. I was told it took forty minutes to get me out of my car. I'm told I should have been squished pretty bad, but that car saved my life."
Elizabeth looked at the footage from the crash for the first time with KSL.
Elizabeth Devlin: "I haven't seen the news, I haven't wanted to."
Yesterday was the first day she can even remember since the wreck.
Elizabeth Devlin/Survivor: "'What happened?' is the first thing I asked, and if my car was okay. I was worried about my car."
And despite getting banged up...
Elizabeth Devlin: "I do have concussion, my wrist is broken, and I have lacerations on arms."
She's going to be okay and knows she's lucky, because the driver and passenger in the white car didn't make it.
Elizabeth Devlin: "I feel truly blessed."
This wreck raises the issue of safety along Main Street. It's the busiest in town, with no stop lights. The city council does have plans to put one in by this fall, hoping it will prevent wrecks like this. So the hundreds, even thousands of drivers like Elizabeth, traveling down Main Street, won't have get sent to the hospital.
And despite the memory loss, the pain and trauma, this has given Elizabeth something that she'll always remember.
Elizabeth Devlin, Survivor: "It's given me motivations to do more with my life. I know for a fact it's not my time to go, it wasn't my time."
Elizabeth plans to be back at Utah State to finish school this fall-- she's majoring in broadcast journalism. She could be out of the hospital as soon as tonight.
