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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2122)	9/15/2000 9:57:57 PM
From: Jon Koplik	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12231

<font color=Turquoise>Man Rescued After 4 Days in Ditch. September 15, 2000 Man Rescued After 4 Days in Ditch By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 9:02 p.m. ET NATCHITOCHES, La. (AP) -- A man with two broken legs was rescued Friday after a car crash dumped him into a ditch filled with dirty water and fire ants for four days. Antonio L. Havard, 32, was found when a man surveying for fiber optic cable heard him yelling for help. He was severely dehydrated and had ``ant bites all over,'' but was in good condition ``for the ordeal he's been through,'' said his aunt, Sharon Henderson. Havard's left thigh was badly broken and both bones in his right leg were broken just above the ankle, State Trooper Steve Childers said. He was in serious but stable condition after surgery Friday night at Natchitoches Parish Hospital. Havard, of Miami, was heading from Henderson's house in Pineville to a new job in Shreveport when he fell asleep at the wheel before dawn Monday. His SUV wrecked in a ditch 25 to 30 feet below the level of Interstate 49. He told the Natchitoches Times that he drifted in and out of consciousness immediately after the wreck. He tried to use his cell phone, but the battery was dead. He tried to stand, but ``my legs went rubbery.'' He pulled himself backward through a culvert to the other side of the road -- an all-day ordeal -- only to find that he was still hidden by brush. He tried to haul himself up the embankment, but kept sliding back. Realizing that he was feverish, he dipped water from the ditch to keep himself cool. ``I talked to God I don't know how many times,'' he said. ``I told myself, `If I don't walk out of here, there is where I'm going to die.''' Relatives, who reported him missing Monday night, walked past, searching for him. He watched, but couldn't shout loud enough for anyone to hear. Andy Lawrence, who was surveying for a fiber optic cable, happened to stop nearby Friday morning. Havard ``said he mustered up one good yell for help,'' said Childers, one of his rescuers. He said Havard told him that he was just about to doze off when Lawrence's truck pulled over. Lawrence called 911 and gave Havard his first drink in four days -- two bottles of water. ``That was an angel sent by God,'' Henderson said. Havard's ordeal recalls that of Tillie Tooter, the 83-year-old woman whose car hung suspended in a mangrove swamp in Florida for three days after another car hit hers from behind. Tooter survived by eating candy and sucking rainwater from socks until a teen clearing the roadway saw her car. Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company