Delores and Tony Amaral are a couple who are both in their 80s. Last week, they left their Tennessee home to drive forty minutes to the hospital. The couple got lost and drove 250 miles for five days before they ended up in Atlanta, Georgia.

Lisa Oelerich, the couple’s daughter, said that it all started last Friday, when Tony suffered a fall. The couple got in their Gold PT Cruiser and headed to University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, which is just 30 miles from their home. Somehow, they got lost and ended up in the city of Chattanooga.

When they couldn’t figure out how to get home, Delores and Tony kept driving until they were in Kentucky.

“It looks like one of them had fallen at home. It looks like one of them got in the car to take the other to UT Medical Center,” Lisa said. “They wound up in Chattanooga. Then from Chattanooga they wound up in Kentucky, then from Kentucky they wound up outside Atlanta.”

Eventually, they got to Atlanta, Georgia, where they finally stopped to ask a police officer for directions.

“She (the officer) was doing a routine traffic stop and my father hobbled up to her and asked for directions,” Lisa said. That’s how they got found.”

Lisa explained that though neither her parents had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or dementia, they will likely have to hand over their car keys now.

“The car will go away and we’ve got to figure out what kind of help they need and what kind of help they will allow us to give them,” she said. “There’s not a lot of rights for family members when these kind of things happen.”

Find out more about this harrowing story in the video below.