Dudley Doright rescues Nell Follow

(10-17) 06:39 PDT Greer, S.C. (AP) --

A woman whose car got stuck on railroad tracks was rescued by a police officer moments before an Amtrak train carrying 180 passengers smashed into the vehicle.

"I do think that he was a godsend," Betsy DeVall said in a story published Wednesday in The Greenville News. "I would be in a body bag in a million pieces."

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"About the same time is when I heard the train coming and I started to coaxing the driver and telling her we need to get out of the vehicle, we need to get off these tracks," O'Shields told CNN Wednesday. "At first, I don't think she realized what type of danger she was actually in until the train actually struck her vehicle."

This is something I've never understood. How do you stop on train tracks? What possesses you to think that it's a good idea??

DeVall, of Williamston, said she was on her way to a friend's house to stay overnight. She said she doesn't see well at night and thought she was pulling onto a side road to "get out of the way of traffic" before calling her friend.

She couldn't see. Funny that.