The crash happened just after midnight Thursday morning in the 800 block of Xenia Avenue in east Dayton.

Dayton police said several people living on that street rushed to pull a 38-year-old woman out of the wreckage.

Joseph Green said, "We heard a loud noise, my cousin Aaron came in and says there's a car in the middle of Xenia Avenue. We got down here, all we seen was smoke and a woman hanging halfway out of the car, we pulled her out and put her on the sidewalk."

Police identified the woman as 38-year-old Tirena Schneiders of Riverside.

Officers said the people that rescued her as well as officers and paramedics at the scene believed Schneiders was pregnant, apparently because she kept referring to her baby being with her in the car.

Paramedics took her Miami Valley Hospital, where she is listed in stable condition.

Police said medical workers there also believed the woman was pregnant because, as they looked at her injuries, she was holding her stomach at one point and again referring to her baby.

Officers later learned that her stomach was just one area that was hurting from the crash and that the baby Schneiders was referring to was her cat, a pet she believed was in the car with her at the time of the crash.

Investigators said Schneiders was speeding on Xenia Avenue and preliminary tests at the hospital convinced them that she was highly intoxicated as well.

Sgt. George Hammann said those were probably the two biggest factors explaining why she lost control. "The right front end of her car struck the left rear end of a vehicle parked on the street, a pickup, she then apparently veered the wheel left, that raised the car up, it traveled on it's side for 50 feet, smashing into a second vehicle, teetering on its side for 30 seconds according to some witnesses and then fell on its top."

Schneider's rescuers said she appeared to be a little disoriented and in a lot of pain right after the wreck.

Green said, “She kept saying she wanted to die and to be with her mom again. That is why we pulled her out. We were saying you don’t want to die, you don't want to die.”

Hammann said Schneiders will be cited for OVI, operating a vehicle under the influence, and with Failure to control the vehicle.

Police said are still working to identify where Schnieders was before getting behind the wheel of the car and where she was headed before the wreck.

Officers did not find a cat at the crash scene on Xenia Avenue