Shelley Rowlan Engle has no memory of the 1987 collision that nearly killed her — the collision that took the life of the driver of the car she was riding in.
“I’ve had to rely on stories of others that were there that day, to put the pieces together in what would become a story I would tell for the next 33 years,” Engle told a large group of first responders who reunited Friday in Shoshone.
“Over the span of those years, I’ve always wondered about the people that came to our rescue that day — and I made several attempts to locate them,” she said. “I wanted to thank them for their acts of bravery and courage, and thank them for saving my life.”
On the morning of Aug. 4, 1987, four teenage girls from Shoshone “piled into a little Dodge Colt and headed to Twin Falls for some shopping and lunch,” Engle said.