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Liz Wolthoff, 23, said she and Becca Winslow, 25, were headed to their daycare center jobs when she swerved to avoid a tractor-trailer near the Bogota exit.
Her car hit a patch of ice and slid into a snow bank that acted as a ramp, sending her SUV over the guardrail.
It landed on all fours on a tree trunk and part of a chainlink fence.
“Did I kill my best friend?” Wolthoff said she thought.
“I can’t breathe,” Winslow told her. READ MORE….
STORY / PHOTO: Ron Jeffers
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