A family's minivan was dragged for 16 miles after it crashed into the back of a semi truck on a Michigan road early Wednesday morning -- in the middle of a snowstorm.
The family of four was headed northbound on Interstate 75 near Roscommon when it rear-ended the semi and the van became trapped under the truck's back bumper, MLive reported.
"Our windshield is completely shattered. I can't see nothing," Pamela Menz, who was in the car with her husband and two adult children, told a 911 dispatcher in a 1:50 a.m. call. "We ran into the back of a semi truck and he's not stopping and we're embedded underneath of it."
So the family dragged on 16 miles, in the middle of heavy snowfall and without heat, because the minivan lost its power. Menz and her husband Mathew couldn't tell 911 their location because the van was completely covered in snow, MLive reported.
Meanwhile, the truck's driver continued on as if nothing was wrong. Police said the driver wasn't aware of the situation.
"I just want to get off the back of this thing," a frustrated Pamela Menz told the dispatcher as they tried helping the family determine their location so police could rescue them.
The dispatcher eventually used GPS to pin down their location in Crawford County, according to MLive.
County deputies arrived and the truck driver stopped after seeing the police, 25 minutes after the Menz family got stuck underneath the back.
"Deputies successfully stopped the vehicles without incident, 16 miles from where the original collision had occurred," the Roscommon County Sheriff's Office told ABC News. "The four occupants of the minivan were transported by ambulance to Grayling Mercy Hospital for evaluation. However, no serious injuries are suspected."
