A woman came within moments of death after her campervan fell on top of her, crushing half her body.
Elle, 27, was "near death" and so badly injured she had to have emergency surgery to remove her bowel and half her intestines.
The south Liverpool woman had been enjoying a bank holiday weekend in August last year with friends in the Lake District.
After waving them goodbye, Elle had planned to stay over for one more night.
She parked her campervan in a lay-by at Whinlatter Pass and went to get something from the back - as she did the van started rolling away.
Elle said: "I ran after it thinking I’ll jump in the passenger side of the door and pull the handbrake up.
"It must have hit a rock because it jarred and then fell back down from a height and landed on me, crushing me from my chest down between the tarmac and the side of the passenger door."
She was stuck underneath the weight of the van which was crushing the life out of her for 10 minutes before a passer by spotted her.
A crowd had soon gathered as the emergency services were called.
Firefighters arrived and placed airbags underneath the van and cut out the windscreen before the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) and the Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) could treat Elle.
Dr John Ferris from GNAAS said: "When we arrived Elle was pinned under a campervan with the whole weight of the van on her chest and neck.
"She was blue and gasping and had unrecordable oxygen levels.
"It was proving very tricky to remove the van off her due to the very steep piece of road we were on and the need not to crush her even more as we lifted the van off her.
"She was so near death that I gave her a dose of anaesthetic drugs while she was still trapped and inserted an airway to help ventilate her.
"When she was released she was almost in cardiac arrest briefly before we operated on her chest and gave her a blood transfusion.
"Luckily with the treatment on scene we were able to stabilise her and fly her to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle.
"You can’t come closer to death than Elle did that day."
Elle had punctured both her lungs, and had broken ribs and a shattered pelvis, as a result of being trapped under the devastating pressure of the van.
Part of her bowel had died from lack of blood flow, so half of her intestine was taken out and she was given a temporary stoma.
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Following her treatment in hospital, Elle moved in with her parents. She had to use a wheelchair for two months before she was able to walk again.
Elle said: "I was in awe of everyone who helped me and how caring everyone was.
"Even the people who found me must have been traumatised, but they worked together to help a stranger.
"I might not ever meet those people again but I was so grateful.
“I don’t want to think what would have happened if GNAAS weren’t there in the Lake District.
"They got me to a big trauma centre in such a short time which was just amazing and made all the difference and they proved that even being somewhere so remote, there’s still hope of getting advanced care.
"I received blood at the side of the road and without that I don’t know what would have happened.
"I am absolutely in awe of GNAAS, they’re just completely inspiring, and hopefully I’ll be part of a team like that in the future."
