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ELIZABETH, Colo. (WHDH) - A Colorado woman who nearly died in a car crash gave a warning about the dangers of texting while driving.
"My daughter had text me and said that she needed me to bring her saxophone to the school," said Christina Jahnz.
Jahnz said she stopped by the school but was running late for a meeting.
"I did the voice text and I was in the parking lot and I looked down to make sure it was okay," she said, and in a split second, things changed.
"The next thing I knew, I was looking up there was white powder from the air bags deployed," Jahnz said.
She had slammed into a guardrail pole, which went through the front light of her truck, pierced her in the buttocks, and continued through the seat behind her.
"They had to cut up there and they had to cut behind me because the pipe went through my seat. I could feel it the vibrations and stuff," she said.
Firefighters were able to get her out of the car. She was rushed to the hospital where she underwent emergency surgery.
"I'm truly a miracle. They said if it gone just a little bit the other way I would have bled out," she said of the startling reminder of what can happen with distracted driving.
"Knowing that I could have prevented it to begin with," she said.
Doctors expected her to make a full recovery.
