UPDATE 12/19/11 @ 4 p.m.
KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- In an instant, 28-year-old Tabitha Shamblin was gone. Her life was cut short after the truck she was driving ran off the road, hit a tree and went over a hill.

Tabitha's husband, Hayes, was the last person to ever speak to her. Now, that final phone conversation is repeating in his head.

"She said I can't hear you," Hayes Shamblin said. "And I didn't think anything about it. I told her say it again. She said I can't hear you, and then the phone hung up."

But it wasn't until a few minutes later, after repeated phone calls were made to get back in touch with Tabitha, that Hayes knew something was wrong.

"I called and my friend, Jeff, had got her phone and answered it," Hayes said. "He said she had been in an accident and was over the hill."

Hayes beat emergency crews to the scene and found his wife and two-year-old daugter still inside the crashed truck. Hayes said he could tell his wife was not breathing, but first went to check on his young daughter.

"We opened the truck door, and [my daughter] said, 'what happened to mommy, daddy?'," Hayes said. "I told her I don't know."

Hayes instantly started doing CPR on his wife until EMS crews got on the scene, but he says it was already too late.

"When they arrived, I told them -- shock her," Hayes said. "They said there wasn't nothing left to shock."

Dealing with the reality of life without his wife was hard enough, but Hayes says having to tell his children what happened nearly broke him.

"The hardest thing I had to go through is, once we knew she wasn't going to make it, knowing I had to tell my kids that mommy isn't coming home," Hayes said. "I'd like to wake up and say this is all just a bad dream, but it's not."

Investigators have yet to say what exactly caused the accident. The two-year-old girl who was also involved in the accident was not injured. Tabitha Shamblin leaves behind her husband and five children.

Kanawha County Sheriff's deputies say Tabitha Shamblin, 28, was driving along Paint Creek Road about 3:30 p.m. Sunday when she ran off the road, struck a tree and went over an embankment.

Shamblin was killed in the crash.

Her daughter was a passenger in the truck. She was not injured.

No word on what caused the accident.

Paint Creek Road is back open.

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911 dispatchers tell WSAZ.com the accident happened about 3:30 p.m Sunday along Paint Creek Road.

They say the driver hit a tree, sending the vehicle over an embankment.

Paint Creek Road is expected to be shut down for the next few hours.

We have a crew headed to the scene.

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