91-year-old stuck under car for 2 days
GREENDALE, Wis. (AP) - July 6, 2008 Betty Borowski, of the Milwaukee suburb of Greendale, was found
Tuesday and remained in a hospital in critical intensive care
Friday, her niece Nancy DiMarco said. The hospital would not give
an update on her condition Saturday.
Borowski, who lives alone, became stuck June 29 while looking
for her keys; her head apparently got pinned by the axle, Greendale
Police Chief Rob Dams said.
"She was pretty well wedged in there," Dams said. "It looks
like she crawled under headfirst."
Borowski's mail carrier noticed Tuesday that the previous day's
mail was still in her mailbox, police said. He rang the doorbell
and then asked a neighbor whether he had seen Borowski lately. He
hadn't, so they called police.
Firefighters lifted the car with a jack and removed Borowski,
who was dehydrated and confused.
It turned out her keys were in the car door.
Borowski appears to be recovering, DiMarco said, but may have
suffered a minor heart attack while under the vehicle.
"If it wasn't for people seeing a situation and following
through ... who knows?" she said. "She wouldn't have made it
about one more day."