Military officials said the Humvee carrying Piestewa and Lynch plowed into another jackknifed U.S. truck, after being hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. Lynch suffered major injuries, including multiple fractures and compression to her spine, that knocked her unconscious.
According to ABC News, the Army report details how one of the captured members of the 507th, Sgt. James Riley, later confided to another soldier that he had watched in horror as the Humvee driven by Piestewa weaved frantically along the road, desperately trying to escape the hail of gunfire, before it plowed under the trailer of the truck and came to a stop crushed into the "bobtail" hitch of the giant semi-tractor. Citing sources, ABC News reports Riley and Pfc. Patrick Miller ran to the crash scene, screaming into the vehicle: "Is anyone alive?" Amid a barrage of gunfire, Miller single-handedly attacked several Iraqi soldiers he spotted setting up a mortar position and killed them, firing his M-16 until he exhausted all his ammunition. Witnesses reported Miller's rifle jammed and he began "slamming rounds into the chamber one at a time" and firing them before he was eventually captured. The Army preliminary report calls for Miller to be decorated with the Silver Star, one of the Army's highest honors.
Khudher told The Post he saw the unconscious Lynch taken prisoner, as well as Piestewa, whom he described as being still alive. Military officials reported her killed in the ambush. "Two U.S. officials with knowledge of the Army investigation said Lynch was mistreated by her captors. They would not elaborate," reports The Post.
The paper repeats earlier reports that Lynch has no memory of what happened to her after the accident but, as WorldNetDaily reported, the Lynch family dispelled any notion Jessica suffered amnesia and suggested they were under a gag order of sorts not to divulge any details. "There really wasn't no amnesia problem," Greg Lynch, Jessica's father, told reporters at a press conference outside the Palestine, W. Va., family home. "Her memory is as good as it was when she was at home." But when asked to elaborate on what his daughter remembers happening, Lynch said, "We're really not supposed to talk about that subject. It's still under investigation." http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33122
Whether Piestewa remained conscious immediately after the crash, which occurred about 7 a.m., is uncertain. But an Iraqi farmer is quoted as telling he newspaper that he saw "two American women, one dark-skinned, one light-skinned, pulled from the Humvee." He believed the light-skinned woman, probably the unconscious Lynch, to be dead. http://www.azcentral.com/news/specials/iraq/articles/retro-piestewa-update.html
Lynch was riding in a Humvee when it plowed into a jackknifed U.S. truck. She suffered major injuries, including multiple fractures and compression to her spine, that knocked her unconscious, military sources said. The collision killed or gravely injured the Humvee's four other passengers.
Two U.S. officials with knowledge of the Army investigation said Lynch was mistreated by her captors. They would not elaborate. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/135029092_lynch19.html
The "official report" being refered to is not the actual report, by the way, but the "executive summary" of the report. The full report has not been and is not expected to be made public.