--- description: Kristin Hopkins, 43, was discovered five days later in her crashed car, badly dehydrated and injured, but alive title: Colorado Woman Kristin Hopkins Survives Five Days in Car After Crash image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Accidents](/tag/accidents/) ## Accidents Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Colorado Woman Survives 5 Days in Car After Crash by [Alexandra Sifferlin](/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 5, 2014 3:47 PM CUT by [Alexandra Sifferlin](/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 5, 2014 3:47 PM CUT A Colorado woman has survived five days stranded in her car after a crash. Kristin Hopkins of Highlands Ranch, Colo. was discovered Sunday by hikers near the state’s Highway 285 about 90 miles southwest of Denver, the Associated Press [reports](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/woman-survives-5-days-after-colorado-highway-crash "undefined"). Hopkins had been in a crash on Tuesday that resulted in her car going off the road and down an 80ft embankment, rolling many times and landing on its hood. The 43-year-old was injured and dehydrated when she was discovered five days later, [according to the Denver _Post_](http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci%5F25695995/highlands-ranch-woman-missing-since-tuesday-found-alive "undefined"), and she was sent in a helicopter to St. Anthony Hospital. She had been [reported ](http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/highlands-ranch-woman-missing-4-days-found-in-park-county-wreckage-off-highway-285 "undefined")as a missing person on April 29. \[[_AP_](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/woman-survives-5-days-after-colorado-highway-crash "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/87918/colorado-kristin-hopkins-hway-285/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/87918/colorado-kristin-hopkins-hway-285/"},"headline":"Colorado Woman Survives 5 Days in Car After Crash","datePublished":"2014-05-05T15:47:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:39:27.767Z","description":"Kristin Hopkins, 43, was discovered five days later in her crashed car, badly dehydrated and injured, but alive","url":"https://time.com/87918/colorado-kristin-hopkins-hway-285/","keywords":["Accidents","Colorado","car"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/accidents/","name":"Accidents"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/87918/colorado-kristin-hopkins-hway-285/","name":"Colorado Woman Survives 5 Days in Car After Crash"}}]}] ```