The nation will hear about a Medical Center employee's amazing fight for survival this Sunday night, through an episode of the TV series "I Survived".

On Sept. 11, 1976, Johnny Fahner-Vihtelic, now deputy director of the Medical Center's Office of Technology Transfer, was driving through a remote forest in the rugged Cascade Mountains of Washington when his 1975 Mercury station wagon edged near the shoulder of a road, which crumbled beneath the vehicle, sending vehicle and driver plummeting and tumbling 150 feet down a steep and narrow ravine.

Miraculously, he survived the crash – only to find that he was trapped in his crumpled car, pinned at the left foot and ankle by the root of a tree that had pierced the windshield.