GAINESVILLE, Ga.,None — A Gainesville woman who jumped off a bridge and into Lake Lanier to avoid an accident was released from the hospital on Sunday.
Bianca Vera spoke with Channel 2 Action News reporter Tom Regan on Sunday and said she was doing great and was home resting at her parent's house. Vera told Regan she was up and walking.
The good news is an update to the on-camera interview Vera gave Regan on Friday.
Bianca Vera invited Regan into her hospital room on Friday, where she recounted the terrifying ordeal.
"I don't know how I pulled through. I had a guardian angel," Vera said.
Vera said she leaped off the four-story bridge on Thursday morning because a truck was skidding on ice and headed in her direction.
"The impact of the tractor-trailer hitting my car ... that was all that I remember. Then I was in the water," Vera said.
Police confirmed to Channel 2 that a truck did in fact collide with Vera's car.
Vera cried as she described the impact of hitting the cold water.
"The water was numbing. It was like my body all of a sudden went numb," she said.
"I started getting dizzy and I though that was going to be it. I wasn't going to make it," Vera said.
It took her 45 minutes to make the 100-yard swim to shore.
"There are pillars under the bridge. At one point, I just felt like I couldn't go any longer, so I'd try to go to the pillar."
Vera suffered a broken vertebra and bruises. She is expected to recover.