Posted Friday, February 22 --- 9:00pm

"I was getting on to the interstate from the 12 and 18 exit and I hit black ice and I started to spin and I got hit by a semi," says driver, Patricia Landen.

She's all smiles now, but just this past Tuesday she was in a car accident that nearly cost her her life.

"At that point I either shut my eyes or went into the unconscious state."

She was on her way to pick up her son that morning when a semi truck hit her car and knocked her off a bridge. Her car landed nearly 20 feet below I-90 near Femrite Drive.

"You just think the worst case scenario like when you hear car hit by a semi and you hear being pinned in it, being air lifted nothing good ever comes of that," says Patricia's daughter, Lisa Kennedy.

Lisa and her father rushed to the scene where they saw what was left of the 2000 Buick LeSabre. Despite fears for her mother's well-being, Lisa was able to snap photos on her cell phone.

"We wanted it more just so we can remember what happened. Good or bad you want to know and to be able to show my mom."

Her mother remembers nothing from the time she was hit till the time paramedics came to rescue her. And today was the first time she came face to face with these photos. Patricia walked away with only a cut on her lip and a bruise on her left arm. She believes that wearing her seat belt is what saved her life.