Deputies: Review Of Phone Records Shows Woman Trapped In SUV For 8 Days Did Not Call 911

SEATTLE (AP) _ There's no record of a woman who spent more than a week trapped in the wreckage of her sport utility vehicle calling 911, despite her recollection of doing so, authorities said Monday.

Monday, October 1st 2007, 3:16 pm

By: News On 6

SEATTLE (AP) _ There's no record of a woman who spent more than a week trapped in the wreckage of her sport utility vehicle calling 911, despite her recollection of doing so, authorities said Monday.

Tanya Rider's husband said she woke up in her hospital bed and remembered making a 911 call.

``She was very coherent and she remembered being trapped, which is kind of devastating all by itself, and she believes she made a 911 call,'' Tom Rider told The Associated Press.

But a review of cell phone records showed no such call, King County sheriff's spokesman John Urquhart said.

Investigators believe Tanya Rider ran off the road Sept. 20 while driving home after working an overnight shift at a department store. Search crews tracing her cell phone signal found her Thursday in her mangled SUV in a ravine off a highway in Renton, southeast of Seattle.

Tom Rider has bitterly described his fight to get authorities to search for his wife.

The 33-year-old woman was taken to the hospital in critical condition suffering from kidney failure, dehydration, a badly injured left leg, a broken collar bone and a deep gash on her forehead. She was upgraded Sunday to serious condition.

Tom Rider said Monday his wife was ``doing much better than anyone could ever expect.'' He said she was undergoing surgery for damage to her forehead, and to close up skin on her injured left leg, which doctors hope to avoid amputating.