Man Trapped in Snowy Wreck Survives "A West Virginia man whose car plunged 150 feet into a snowy ravine told today how he ended up trapped in his car for six and a half days, surviving on melted snow, taco sauce packets and small fires he started to keep warm. Ward, 32, was driving to his security guard job at the Pen Coal mine last Monday when he lost control of his car. He found himself stuck in his wrecked car, five miles from his workplace, and two miles from the nearest residence in the backcountry of Wayne County. Neither the headlights nor the horn of the 1985 Ford worked, and though he could sometimes hear searchers nearby he was too weak to call out."