Lee Redmond shows off her fingernails, which are about 30 inches long. Redmonds fingernails were broken off in a traffic accident this week. Photo The Deseret News, Tom Smart/AP.
Lee Redmond of Salt Lake City sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries in the accident on Tuesday.
Redmond's nails, which hadn't been cut since 1979, were broken in the crash.
According to the Guinness website, her nails measured a total of more than 28 feet long in 2008, with the longest nail on her right thumb at 2 feet, 11 inches.
Salt Lake County Sheriff's Lt. Don Hutson says Redmond was ejected from an SUV in the crash and taken to the hospital in serious condition.
Redmond has been featured on TV in episodes of Guinness Book of World Records and Ripley's Believe It or Not.
