Video has emerged showing the woman whose car plunged off the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Maryland last Friday clinging to rocks after escaping the sinking vehicle.

Morgan Lake was driving over the 4.3 mile bridge when a tractor-trailer hit her car from behind, sending the vehicle into the bay. Scott Fortney, the video’s uploader, described the scene:

I was three cars behind her when her car was struck by the tractor trailer and flipped over the jersey wall. The car went under, appeared to be about 10′-15′ of water depth, 30′ foot drop from bridge. Morgan emerged and clung to rocks until water rescue took place.

Lake talked to NBC4 about the decision to fight for her life: “The longest part was under the water, because I had time to think I was going to die and the time to process, to change my mind and to stop fighting and to relax my body and unbuckle my seat belt to swim out.”

In the video, bystanders are heard comforting Lake and telling her an ambulance was on its way. The 22-year-old college student is heard asking if anyone had called her mother, which someone replied they had. The video ends before Lake was rescued, which she was by a police and fire department boats.