New Zealander Anna Costley was on her way home from a year-long trip around Asia when she was injured after a train jumped the rails in India on the weekend.
Nine people were killed when 15 carriages of the Delhi-bound Mandore Express flew off the tracks about 40km south of Jaipur.
Rescuers used machinery to cut open some of the cars to free trapped passengers.
Nineteen people were hospitalised - three of them in a serious condition.
Ms Costley phoned her father in Palmerston North to tell him the news from her hospital bed.
"It was the sort of phone call you don't want to hear, but we were very relieved to know that she was well enough to be able to phone us herself," Brent Costley told The Dominion Post.
The 27-year-old suffered stomach, leg and head injuries, and had been trapped for 10 or 15 minutes before finding a way to crawl from the wreckage, her father said.
Ms Costley hoped to be well enough to leave hospital today and catch her planned flight home.
- NZPA
NZ woman trapped in India train crash
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