Watch Woman Escapes Car Trunk After Kidnapping

A quick-thinking diabetic Alabama woman used her insulin pump to escape the trunk of a car she was locked in after being kidnapped at gunpoint last week.

The harrowing ordeal began when a gunman approached Brittany Diggs last Tuesday outside her apartment in Birmingham and threatened to kill her if she didn’t hand over money.

The brave nursing student, 25, was forced to drive the gunman around town in search of an ATM so she could withdraw cash.

“He tried to rob two other couples. I kept telling him I was a broke college student, I don’t have anything. He’s like, ‘Give me your PIN number or I’m going to kill you,’” Diggs told NBC’s “Today” show Monday.

The man then locked Diggs in the trunk of her Nissan Altima and pulled into a gas station.

“My biggest fear was [that] he was going to drive this car into a river. I’m going to drown here and no one’s going to know I’m in this trunk,” she recalled.

But suddenly, it dawned on Diggs to use the light on her insulin pump to search for the trunk release latch that she learned about watching YouTube videos.

“I just got the bright idea to use my insulin pump light, which is not a bright light, but it was bright enough to see,” she said.

Diggs was ready to spring into action as the gunman climbed back into the car.

“I’m holding the latch like this, waiting for him to get back in the car. He gets in, he’s yelling,” she said, “and I feel the car reversing, and he’s pulling out pretty fast, so I’m, like, ‘Oh shoot — I better get out of here.'”

Surveillance video from the gas station shows the moment Diggs pops the trunk, rolls out and runs for her life into the gas station convenience store.

The suspect is still in the wind. Birmingham police tweeted out a picture of him wearing a black baseball cap and dark-colored striped sweater.

Diggs now plans to relocate, saying she no longer feels safe in her neighborhood.

“He had my phone, keys, car, everything. Gone. Like, I literally just had a jacket,” she said. A GoFundMe page to help her with moving and other costs has so far raised more than $13,500.

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