How long could you live on what is in your car?

The Associated Press

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - For once, Calista Endicott was thankful her brother Robert Ward kept a messy car.

Assorted food packets, a peanut butter jar and other items are being credited for Ward's surviving six and a half days trapped in subfreezing weather after he crashed his car last week. A broken hip suffered in the accident prevented him from climbing out of the vehicle.

"Thank God I have a messy brother," Endicott said Wednesday on ABC's "Good Morning America."

The 32-year-old from Kermit, east of the Kentucky line, was found Sunday by rescuers who heard his cries for help.

"I ... had some hallucinations. I thought I had been rescued earlier," he said.

Ward said he wasn't "worried too much about food at first. I had some Border sauce that you get from Taco Bell. I like that stuff anyway."

His car landed at the bottom of a 150-foot ravine after he lost control of it Dec. 2 while heading to work as a coal mine security guard.

"It really is a miracle that he survived," said Dr. William Beam. "He was starting to go into organ failure."

Ward also suffered frostbite and a cut. He was in serious condition Wednesday in the intensive care unit of a Huntington hospital.

12/11/02 10:50 EST

How long could you survive, based on the contents of your car (or a friend's/relative's car if you don't have one)?