Nail-biting moment female Fed Ex driver realizes she's made awful decision on lonely country road

An Alabama FedEx operator realized she was stuck connected an abandoned span with nary mode to the different broadside successful tense footage. 

Raven Edwards, 26, was arrested and accused of driving nether the power aft she drove a message motortruck done a deteriorating wooded way successful Winston County connected January 18. 

But the operator has maintained her innocence - claiming she was not astatine each drunk and was pursuing her GPS. Edwards said she lone failed her tract sobriety trial due to the fact that she was nervous.  

In the shocking dashcam footage captured earlier her arrest, she does not look acrophobic - until the travel down the decaying span starts to get bumpy. 

Edwards seemingly begins to announcement thing is incorrect erstwhile she abruptly stops driving, but she lone looks down astatine her thigh earlier continuing done the destroyed path.

Footage shows the unsuspecting operator jolting successful her spot as she continues driving done the eerie route. The roadworthy up is covered with fallen trees. 

Finally, the motortruck comes to a jarring halt erstwhile the constrictive roadworthy is excessively blocked by debris for Edwards to continue. 

Suddenly baffled and afraid, Edwards scratches her caput and screams: 'F**k a duck!'

After a infinitesimal of silence, she lets retired a grunt of decision earlier exclaiming: 'I'm scared! I'm scared, baby.'

Moments aft Edwards recovered herself successful the absurd situation, constabulary arrived astatine the country and arrested her with a DUI, according to Cullman Daily. 

The Winston County Sheriff's bureau told DailyMail.com Edwards was booked into region jailhouse conscionable aft 12:15 americium and has since been bonded out. 

Edwards has denied being nether the influence, telling Cullman Daily that the GPS misled her down the way that looked consecutive retired of a fearfulness film. 

Photos of the FedEx motortruck aft the incidental uncover that Edwards was conscionable moments distant from disaster. 

Had she kept driving, she whitethorn person reached a information of the span that did not person a coagulated bottommost - conscionable alloy bars that cannot beryllium driven over. 

In a Facebook plea, Christina Shields, Edwards' cousin, told radical to beryllium benignant and empathetic. She claimed Edwards is being falsely accused of driving portion intoxicated. 

Shields alluded to her relative struggling with substance maltreatment successful the past, but asserted that she was sober erstwhile she was arrested. 

She wrote: 'Please support my relative successful your prayers alternatively of laughing, making jokes, oregon being ugly. 

'You ne'er cognize what atrocious things idiosyncratic has endured oregon is presently enduring successful their lives. You ne'er cognize conscionable however adjacent idiosyncratic is to giving it each up. 

'Addiction is simply a illness and it does not discriminate. It doesn’t instrumentality overmuch to beryllium a decent quality being.'

Shields said Edwards told her she was not astatine each drunk and was conscionable 'shook up' astir the accident. 

'She was having a panic onslaught and they weren’t listening to her. She was caller to the area, had conscionable moved determination and started this route,' Shields wrote.

'We each cognize however brainsick GPS tin be. I judge she’ll beryllium capable to bushed the case.' 

She besides claimed that Edwards got her humor gully and a hairsbreadth follicle trial aft her apprehension to beryllium her innocence and instantly hired a lawyer to combat the accusations.

A unit subordinate was capable to corroborate that Edwards had her humor drawn for a test, but could not uncover the results erstwhile approached by DailyMail.com. 

The video has evoked beardown spectator reactions, which immoderate radical showing enactment for Edwards.

'Coming from a location wellness caregiver those GPS' volition instrumentality you to immoderate CRAZY places. Praying for her,' 1 pistillate wrote.

Others seemed a spot skeptical of her assertion to sobriety, with 1 idiosyncratic writing: 'She could person died. I anticipation this wakes her up and she gets the assistance she needs.'

Edwards has not publically responded to the FedEx debacle, but she commented connected her cousin's post: 'If anyone has questions y'all tin telephone maine oregon substance maine conscionable saying.'

FedEx told DailyMail.com that Edwards is 'no longer providing service' for the company.

'The behaviour reported is not acceptable nor accordant with the professionalism FedEx squad members show each time successful safely and securely delivering millions of packages to our customers,' FedEx wrote.

DailyMail.com has reached retired to Edwards and Shields for comment.