started picking up speed and picking up speed, and i m going, like, 80, almost 90 miles an hour. and i m scared to death. okay. have you put your car in neutral? i can t get it to move. i can t get the car to shut off. the procedures bride suggests fail to slow down the kia sorento suv. bride alerts the missouri state highway patrol. sergeant sheldon lyon is on duty that day. when the troopers finally see her on the interstate, her car is at over 100 miles per hour. trooper justin johnson s dash camera is recording when he catches up with ulvestad. he s one of two responders. the troopers made their game plan as they were responding. one of them got in front, and the other one followed her from behind, and the plan was if one of them got slowed up, they would leapfrog back and forth always trying to keep someone in front of her. i m coming up on a bunch of cars. okay.
shortly after her scary ride, ulvestad appears on the today show. lauri ulvestad. good to have you here, good morning. thank you. is it hard to watch that? it s harder to listen to the 911 tape. i can imagine. you must have been terrified. extremely. ulvestad has reached a settlement with kia motors america. she says as part of the agreement, she s barred from speaking further about the incident. the company issued a statement saying in part that after rigorous inspection, no defect has been identified and the car operates as designed. as for surviving the ordeal, ulvestad says she had some protection onboard. this was hanging on your dash. it says never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly. yep. you have a guardian angel for sure, lauri. coming up all of a sudden you hear a huge explosion, see my baby fly airborne from the door. and later
i think i just killed it. she s stopping. ulvestad s suv comes to rest on the median off interstate 35. still on her cell phone with bride, ulvestad emerges, shaking but alive. i ll call your husband, let him know the good news. okay. sergeant johnson secures the vehicle and for good measure disconnects the battery. he, like others, is impressed by ulvestad s driving skills. she went down into the median ten times. and each time she did that, it s a very dangerous thing to do. for someone to have no experience with any of that, and then drive one handed while they re talking to the 911 operator for over a half hour, is really incredible that this ended up the way it did.
she came very close to striking that guardrail. she made it. ulvestad is driving one handed. the other is gripping her cell phone. she s terrified but manages a joke. i guess maybe i should be a nascar driver. look out, danica. yeah, maybe she could have some competition, hey? yeah. the laughter is brief. there s traffic ahead. oh, my god. now i m coming into des moines. can t they do something? i can t do this in des moines. ulvestad has been driving for more than 30 minutes at speeds up to 119 miles per hour, and her gas tank is still three-quarters full. fearing she won t be able to control the car much longer, ulvestad makes another attempt to stop. when she pressed on the brake and pulled up on the gas, she said, oh, it shook. i said, do it again. she goes, i am, i am. she s like, it s slowing down.
ended up the way it did. shortly after her scary ride, ulvestad appears on the today show. lauri ulvestad. good to have you here, good morning. thank you. is it hard to watch that? it s harder to listen to the 911 tape. i can imagine. you must have been terrified. extremely. ulvestad has reached a settlement with kia motors america. she says as part of the agreement, she s barred from speaking further about the incident. the company issued a statement saying, in part, that after rigorous inspection, no defect has been identified and the car operates as designed. as for surviving the ordeal, ulvestad says she had some protection onboard. this was hanging on your dash. it says never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly. yep. you have a guardian angel for sure, lauri. yep. coming up all of a sudden, you hear a huge explosion, see my baby fly airborne from the door. and later