The 29-year-old mother of three was driving down Gaston Webb’s Chapel Road on Thursday morning to pick up her daughters when she hit an icy spot. Her car flipped down a steep embankment and into a creek.

“I was upside-down in the water, and it (the car) filled up with water really quick,” Grant said.

Grant felt around the car, looking for an escape.

“I really couldn’t tell where I was going, in the water. I just felt, and there was the window on my driver’s side, so I just swam out of it,” Grant said.

But it wasn’t easy. In fact, Grant almost gave up.

“When I finally did get my head and my waist out, my hips got stuck. So I was underwater for at least a minute, minute and a half,” she said.

Grant has three daughters - they’re 11, 9 and 6 years old.

“They are the reason I survived … they’re beautiful, bright little girls, and I couldn’t leave them without a mommy,” she said.

Grant spent the afternoon in the emergency room at Gaston Memorial. She is expected to make a full recovery, and she says she's never going to drive in icy conditions again.

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Yikes!

We saw this on the news here this morning. I am so thankful that she was on the way to pick up her daughters and that they were not with her in the car. This story could have had a much different ending had they been with her.

I am so glad she is ok. Thank god her kids were not with her.

That's sooooooo true.

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Mythbusters just did a show on this last week. She was lucky she had an open window because they couldn't get the door opened in time to survive!

I have a huge, irrational fear of this. Hate long bridges. I'm so glad it worked out well!

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This just happened in my town a couple weeks ago. A 16 year old and her 89 year old grandma were going home from church and hit a slick spot and went right into the river. Unfortuneately, they did not get out. There was a mom and her 1 & 3 year old kids did the same thing, 10 years ago in the same area of river, the mom had a seizure. It is soo sad.

I'm so glad that that mom got out ok.... That would be a horrible death..