Survivor Recounts Deadly Crash

For the first time, in an emotional Boston Herald interview, the public is hearing from the lone survivor of a tragic crash in Framingham, Massachusetts.

Twenty-one-year-old Lilibeth Vasquez survived when the car she was in failed to negotiate a curve near the Framingham Country Club, ending up in a pond.

Her boyfriend, 21-year-old Brian Archila, died, along with his sister, 25-year-old Jennifer Archila.

Vasquez remembers her boyfriend trying frantically to save them first, as the car filled with water.

"As the water was going up, he told us to go the back, since it was rising from the front to the back," she said.

Jennifer Archila also tried to come up with a plan, Vasquez says. For a while, the two of them breathed oxygen from the same air pocket.

"She's like, 'We're not going to die, OK?' I was like, 'OK.' She said, 'Let's try to figure something out,'" said Vasquez. "As time goes by, she got weaker, and said like, 'I think we're going to die,' and I'm like, 'Don't say that.'"

Firefighters say they found Jennifer Archila, dead, still seat-belted in the car. They say Brian Archila died by trying to open the car doors.

Crews found Vasquez in the cold, dark, murky water, with her head pressed against the seat cushion - the air from it saved her life, firefighters said.

Now, as the siblings are laid to rest, Vasquez wishes she could trade places with Brian and Jennifer Archila.

The funeral for the victims will take place Thursday at St. Stephen Church in Framingham at 11:30 am.

Police say initial reports show neither drugs nor alcohol were factors in the crash.

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