Washington:
A family of four in the US state of Arizona has miraculously survived a crash with minor injuries after their car plunged 250-feet down a cliff and rolled as many as seven times.
A northern Arizona woman was driving down Mingus Mountain near Prescott with her sister and two young nieces when it began snowing and she hit a patch of ice.
"I didn't know if we were going to make it out alive or not," Colleen Savage of Tonalea was quoted as saying by CBS News. "I didn't know what was going to happen to us. I was scared."
The Department of Public Safety said Savage was only going about 15 mph in a 30-mph zone when she lost control coming out of a curve on an Arizona Highway and plunged about 250 feet down a cliff.
"She said, 'Be careful; I love you guys; I don't want to lose you guys,'" 9-year-old Valerie Hernandez said of her mother, Clararina Hernandez, who was in the front passenger seat.
Valerie said her mother kept telling the family, as their car rolled as many as seven times, to relax and not tense up.
"My mom, she was right there," said Valerie. "She was helping me not fly out the window."
Amazingly, no one in the car was seriously hurt in the accident that happened on Wednesday morning.
Even Valerie, who remained at Phoenix Children's Hospital for observation, only has bumps and bruises.
"She's extremely lucky, as was everyone else in the car," Dr Heidi Dalton said.
Dalton said Valerie has a small dent or "ping-pong fracture" in her skull, which will heal.
"This may well just eventually pop back like when you dent your bumper," Dalton said.
Savage said the wreck totalled her car, and she only has liability insurance.