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(Scroll down for video) A man is lucky to be alive after spending six days without food and water lying on top of his dead friend in a crashed car, according to rescue workers in Colorado.
The man who survived the car accident said he thought it was all a dream.
Richard Koester of Westcliffe, was in the passenger seat of a truck driven by his friend, Ronald Mohr, when the truck spun out and crashed into a ravine.
Mohr died in the accident while Koester, 36, survived, but was trapped inside.
"I remember saying to myself that I cannot move. I cannot get out of this truck," Koester said from his hospital bed.
Injured and disoriented, Koester said he cannot remember many of the details of how he survived the next six days trapped inside the car with the body of Mohr without food or water.
"I was lying on top of him all the six days. I had no idea until I woke up," Koester said.
Koester was trapped until a road worker finally saw the truck.
"I stuck my arm out through the large hole in the back of the truck and was yelling for help," Koester said. "I thought I was in a dream," he added.
Koester lost both his legs in the accident and has undergone treatment.
One of the last phone calls Koester made before the crash was to his daughter, to wish her a happy 13th birthday.
