An Indiana woman is alive thanks to her quick thinking.

Nearly one week after Brieonna Cassell’s car crashed into a ditch in Newton County, Indiana, she stayed alive by dipping her sweatshirt in water for hydration while waiting to be rescued, her family shared.

“She would take her hoodie and toss it, like she’s fishing,” her dad Delmar Caldwell told NBC Chicago in an interview published March 11. “And bring it back and suck on it to have water.”

Brieonna, who was the sole occupant in the vehicle, was driving one mile from the Newton County landfill March 6 when officials believe she had fallen asleep, the Newton County Sheriff’s Office told the station. Her car veered off the road and landed in an embankment.

Despite the wreckage not being visible from the road, per authorities, a passerby eventually saw her car while operating a tractor for a drainage company, the sheriff’s office shared in a Facebook post. After Johnny Martinez summoned his supervisor Jeremy Vanderwall, they checked inside to see Brieonna conscious and speaking.