Police: Driver goes over 15-foot retaining wall, landing on roof

KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) -

A mother was rushed to the hospital after the car she was in rolled off a very high retaining wall and landed on its roof Thursday evening.

Chopper5 flew over the scene at East Truman Road and Hardesty Avenue about 5:35 p.m. It showed about eight or nine firefighters and half a dozen police officers surrounding a blue two-door Mustang convertible. They got a woman out of the car, onto a stretcher and to an awaiting ambulance.

The car was on its roof in the parking lot of the Wash Time laundromat and car wash, directly next to a 15-foot-tall stone retaining wall. The driver's car was on the road above, went through a fence and over the stone wall to the parking lot below, all while she was inside trying to stop it.

"I heard like something smashing," Tina Miller said.

Miller stepped outside of laundromat and then heard a woman's screams, which directed her to the awful sight. She did what she could for the woman trapped inside.

"I grabbed my phone, I called 911. She said her head was bleeding and her foot was stuck so I went and got her a wash rag," Miller said.

The woman's father told KCTV5 that 26-year-old Michelle Funk is, in his words, lucky to be alive. He said he felt helpless, standing 15-feet above her, wanting to make the jump himself to come to her aid. He said she was coming to pick up her kids from a visit with him and his wife and the car started rolling right before the kids got inside

"...she had gotten out and for unknown reasons her vehicle started rolling so she jumped back in to her vehicle to try to stop it from rolling and unfortunately was unable to," said Sgt. Deb Randol with the Kansas City Police Department.

Police since learned that the driver accidentally left her car in gear and it rolled forward.

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Police: Driver goes over 15-foot retaining wall, landing on roof