SAN ANTONIO -- A year ago, Vanessa Barron was given almost no chance to live after a horrific automobile accident.

The truck she was riding in veered off the road hit a tree and rolled into a ditch. Barron was left unconscious. She suffered a spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury and two collapsed lungs.

Doctors gave her a 3 percent chance to live, but Barron survived.

"At first I was shocked and then depressed and then as soon as my family came around, they helped me get through this," Barron said.

Part of getting through was learning to walk again. After three months at the Warm Springs Rehabilitation Facility, and with a little help from a walker, Barron was not only walking, but she was walking to classes again at Our Lady of the Lake University.

"It was scary because I was in a walker, and you don't see many 21-year-olds in a walker (these) days," Barron said.

The education student lost her mother to breast cancer in January.

Future residents of Warm Springs will also know her story: she will be the 16th patient to have her picture hanging on the Wall of Fame at the facility.

To view a five-minute video of Vanessa Barron's recovery, click here.