A mother who spent five days trapped in her truck next to a rural western North Carolina highway has been upgraded to fair condition.

Officials at Carolinas Medical Center tell The Charlotte Observer that 21-year-old Amber Pennell was moved from intensive care Wednesday night.

The mother of two was found Monday night in the wreckage at the
bottom of a 100-foot-deep ravine off U.S. 321 in Lenoir. Her
husband, Mitchell Pennell, has said that surgeons put a rod in his
wife's broken leg and that she would be fine despite a broken arm,
skull fracture and other injuries.

Pennell had left work at a barbecue restaurant in Lenoir late
Wednesday. Searchers didn't notice a track from the highway to the
ravine until Monday.