Paul Voakes of the Pine-Strawberry Fire District. The driver suffered only minor injuries because a depression in the roof of the car created a space that enveloped her when the car flipped over and landed. "When we first got there, she was pretty excited as I think anybody would be," Voakes said. The girl was face-down and responders could see only one hand and a foot until using inflation bags and other gear to lift the car, Voakes said. The teen was listed in good condition Thursday at a Flagstaff hospital while the other two girls, ages 16 and 17, were released, according to Yavapai County sheriff's officials. D'Evelyn said there were no signs of drug or alcohol use during the initial investigation. Responding agencies included the sheriff's office from each county along with firefighters from the Pima-Strawberry and Camp Verde fire districts and the Tonto Rim Search and Rescue Squad.
– Somehow, this ends well: An SUV with three teenage girls went off a 100-foot cliff in Arizona, and the 16-year-old driver was thrown from the vehicle as it flipped and landed on top of her. It took a while for rescuers to get all three freed, but everybody came away with only minor injuries. As KPHO explains, the driver wasn't seriously hurt because the vehicle's roof got dented as it rolled, and the girl ended up in the resulting cavity of space between the roof and the ground. Rescuers got the two strapped-in passengers out of the car in an hour, but it took four hours to delicately raise the car with inflation bags to free the driver, an operation that involved passersby gathering rocks to place under the SUV. "I just remember we had gone really fast around this corner and the car started to lean over, and we all kind of had that moment of, 'Oh crap, this is going to happen,' and then the car just started rolling," says passenger Danielle Goldberg. The girls were returning home from a day of swimming, and police say there's no sign of drugs or alcohol involved in the crash in a remote desert area near Strawberry, reports AP. The driver was the only one not wearing her seat belt. (In New Jersey, two women survived going off a bridge when their SUV landed upright.)