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A teenage girl is attacked and thrown into a van in Midtown on Friday, but thanks to her struggle was able to get the abductor to leave her behind.

The girl was walking home from school on Friday in midtown Tucson when the unthinkable happened. As she walked by the intersection at Seneca Street and Country Club Road, she passed by a white Ford truck.

"When I passed by that truck, I got hit from behind and I got taken," she says. "He threw me in his vehicle, he started hitting me and trying to knock me out."

"I was scared," says the 15-year-old girl. "I didn't think I'd see the day of light again. I thought I was going to die."

That's when her instincts kicked in. Growing up with older brothers, she had learned to defend herself.

"I was fighting back: scratching, hitting, moving the wheel to see if I could crash him into something, just honking the horn, screaming," she says.

She was fighting for her life, and wasn't going to give up. Her attacker obviously had second thoughts, and threw her out of the vehicle possibly because she was too much trouble.

"He just threw me out," she said. "He said, ‘You can go now.'"

The teenage girl says that there was a man riding a bicycle that may have seen the suspect. When the suspected attacker threw her out of his vehicle, this unidentified bicyclist was the first person she saw, she says.

The girl's father is hoping this man will come forward and help police identify the attacker. His daughter did everything right, he said.

"What my daughter did was brave and a smart thing to do," he says.

The attacked is described as a white male in his 30's or 40's, taller than 5'5", thin build, with shorter dirty blonde hair. He has a tan complexion, with facial hair on his cheeks, also dirty blonde. He was last seen wearing a black t-shirt, black jeans, and black shoes.

The suspect vehicle is described as a white, newer model Ford pick-up truck, 2 door, grey bench seat, no tint on the windows, and it has a GPS or radar detector attached to the front windshield.

Anyone with information is urged to call 911 or 88-CRIME.