KAMIAH, Idaho -- A scenic drive quickly turned into a nightmare for an Idaho woman when she was impaled through her neck by a large tree limb.
Michelle Childers, 20, and her husband were driving along the Lochsa River in the Idaho wilderness earlier this month when the freak accident happened.
Childers says they had driven down a dead-end road and were on their way back when a limb from a spruce tree came out of nowhere and crashed through the passenger window.
She says all she remembers is feeling a pressure in her neck and asking husband where the limb was.
"He was freaking out and he goes, it's in your neck," she said.
The branch was 8-inches long and rammed itself through to her shoulder.
Childers says the couple said their goodbyes, just in case.
After about an hour of driving, the couple reached a lodge near the Idaho/Montana border, where a nurse arranged for her to be flown to a hospital for treatment.
The tree limb was removed during a 6-hour surgery.
Childers is recovering at home.
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