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A 14-year-old Wichita girl remained in critical condition Thursday after driving a golf cart off an embankment near Fox Lake in Butler County on Wednesday night.
She spent almost a half-hour entangled in barbed wire until a resident of the private lake-side subdivision freed her.
Two other teenage girls who were passengers in the golf cart had desperately tried to untangle the driver with no success, according to the Butler County Sheriff's Office.
The driver was Regan Wheeler, authorities said.
The adult resident at Fox Lake, about a mile east of Cassoday, was called and was able to cut Regan out of the fence, authorities said. He kept the golf cart from falling by using an extension cord tied to his pickup.
"The golf cart was literally teetering on the edge of the embankment," Butler County Sheriff Craig Murphy said.
He said he wouldn't release the rescuer's name because the accident was on private property.
Emergency responders said Regan was unresponsive and in critical condition when they arrived. She was airlifted to Wesley Medical Center, where she remained in critical condition Thursday afternoon.
Murphy said he believes the three Wichita girls were at Fox Lake to visit friends during spring break. None of the girls were residents of the subdivision, he said.
It's uncertain how Regan lost control of the golf cart, Murphy said.
"All we can understand about it is she was in the process of turning around, and there wasn't enough space," he said.
