A 31-year-old woman lost both legs after being dragged while trapped to a car on the Marginal Tietê, near Vila Maria, in the northern zone of São Paulo, Brazil. The incident happened on the morning of November 29.

Tainara Souza Santos was helped by people passing by, who noticed it was a woman stuck on the outside of the trunk of a black car. She was taken to the Hospital Municipal Vereador José Storopolli.

According to the family’s lawyers, Fabio Costa and Wilson Zaska, the person driving the vehicle was the young woman’s ex, who had been chasing her for a long time. Tainara’s brother, Luan, told Metrópoles that the two were ex-flings and never had anything serious. The suspect would be Douglas Alves Da Silva.

The defense stated that the victim had both legs amputated, and due to the condition in which she was found, she remains hospitalized in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), but is not at risk of death. She is the mother of two children, a 12-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl.