Family survives plunge down side of highway with minor injuries.

A northern Arizona woman was driving down Mingus Mountain near Prescott on Wednesday morning with her sister and two young nieces when it began snowing and she hit a patch of ice.

"I didn't know if we were going to make it out alive or not," said Colleen Savage of Tonalea. "I didn't know what was going to happen to us. I was scared."

The Department of Public Safety said Savage was only going about 15 mph in a 30-mph zone when she lost control coming out of a curve on Arizona Highway 89-A and plunged about 250 feet down a cliff.

"She said, 'Be careful; I love you guys; I don't want to lose you guys,'" 9-year-old Valerie Hernandez said of her mother, Clararina Hernandez, who was in the front passenger seat.

Valerie said her mom kept telling the family, as their car rolled as many as seven times, to relax and not tense up.

Amazingly, no one in the car was seriously hurt.

Even Valerie, who remained at Phoenix Children's Hospital for observation, only has bumps and bruises.