Team effort to rescue trapped mom of 2

WEST YARMOUTH, Mass. (WPRI) -- Police said a 27-year-old mother may have been trapped in a vehicle for more than eight hours overnight following a serious rollover accident.

"It's heartbreaking. It is heartbreaking to think someone suffered for that long," said Chief Michael Walker of the Yarmouth Fire Department.

It was a team effort to rescue the woman who was trapped inside a minivan for eight hours in the cold.

A woman walking her dog around 7 a.m. Thursday heard the woman's cries for help from the woods and called 911.

Yarmouth police and fire arrived at the crash site on Winslow Gray Road within minutes and worked tirelessly to get Megan Lynn Haley out from the mangled mess.

"These guys did an amazing job. They got there and none stop for an hour. They just full-throttlle trying to get that gal out of there," added Chief Walker.

The fire chief said Haley was cold and disoriented, but alive. He said the conditions may have actually helped her.

"Perhaps the cold helped keep her from passing because of coagulation and metabolism and things like that," explained Chief Walker.

Police said Haley last remembers driving around 10 p.m. Wednesday, and a neighbor heard a crash around 11 p.m.

"It looks like she was driving in a direction, and at that curve, just kept going straight basically," said Chief Steve Xiarhos of the Yarmouth Police Department.

Officials said there were Christmas presents in the back of Haley's car and she was about only one mile from home.