A man in his 20s was driving on I 94 near Portage, Indiana, when he drove off the road, on the grass shoulder, went airborne, into the creek, where he rolled several times, stopping under the freeway bridge, and wasn't found for 6 days, but was found alive

Mario Garcia and son-in-law Nivardo De La Torre reported finding the man, whom they initially believed to be dead, in a shallow creek beneath an Interstate 94 bridge in the city of Portage about 3:35 p.m.

The driver wasn’t sure how long he’d been trapped, Garcia and De La Torre said, and he was suffering from multiple visible injuries, including a broken hand.

"He just mentioned he couldn't feel his extremities," Garcia said.

Fifield said that investigators were still trying to determine the driver's identity but that he appeared to be a man in his late 20s from the South Bend area.

He may have been at the site for nearly a week undetected because the area is out of view of the interstate, Fifield said.

"I looked over the bridge, and you can't see it," Fifield said, adding that no accident reports had been fielded in the area in recent days.

After Garcia and De La Torre spotted the wreckage and walked toward it to get a better look, they weren't completely sure about what they saw.

"You could barely tell what it was," Garcia said. "It was mangled completely."

Rescuers from the Portage and Burns Harbor fire departments took a few hours to free the man, Fifield said, because the wreckage was perilous and the location was difficult.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/indiana-men-scouting-fishing-holes-find-driver-trapped-days-mangled-ve-rcna131262

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