A woman in California was able to survive four freezing nights in her wrecked truck after the vehicle plunged more than 250 feet into a canyon.
The unidentified woman spent five days and four nights inside the wrecked Ford Ranger after losing control of the vehicle while swerving to avoid a deer on Mount Baldy Road in San Bernardino on Jan. 3.
She was unable to seek help due to the thick brush and treacherous landscape of Angeles National Park, and apparently survived on the supplies she had inside her truck, including some blankets to keep her warm as temperatures dropped below freezing.
The woman was finally found Sunday by Chris Ayres, who was hiking in the Angeles National Forest when he heard the driver calling for help.
“There was a plane flying very high and I think she was desperately trying to wave her hands or something and she screamed, asking for help, and that’s when I heard her,” Ayres told ABC 7.
“She screamed again for help and I said, ‘Hello, are you there?’ And she said, ‘Yes, can you call 911? I’ve been here for days.’ And she couldn’t believe what she was hearing.”
Ayres said he found the woman visibly injured, but alert.
An unidentified woman spent five days and four nights inside her wrecked Ford Ranger after losing control of the vehicle while swerving to avoid a deer on a California mountain road. San Dimas Mountain Rescue Team
“She didn’t think she would survive another night.
“He said he was preparing his bed for that night. She just said that she didn’t think she was going to make it.”
Ayres said he tried to call 911 twice, but had poor cell phone reception, so he ran back to Mount Baldy Road and called a U.S. Forest Service truck.
Engine Captain Matt Brossard was inside the vehicle and said his crew was responding to another nearby incident when they noticed it.
Ayres then drove them to where the woman was trapped inside her wrecked Ford Ranger.
“She was pinned in the driver’s seat,” Brossard told the San Francisco Gate.
“I don’t know how he survived,” Ayres added. “I saw that the steering wheel was almost bent like a block. His head must have hit that.”
Authorities said the woman was able to survive with the supplies she had inside the vehicle. San Dimas Mountain Rescue Team
Working together, firefighters, California Highway Patrol officers and Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department deputies were able to extradite the woman through the windshield.
She was then airlifted to a nearby hospital.
He is believed to have had a broken ankle, and Sheriff’s Deputy Robert Dondanville speculated to NBC Los Angeles that he may have suffered hypothermia, dehydration and malnutrition.
Working together, firefighters, California Highway Patrol officers and Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department deputies were able to extradite the woman through the windshield. San Dimas Mountain Rescue Team
“He’s very lucky,” Fire Department Capt. Ian Thrall told CBS News, stating that “most of the time [drivers] “I don’t survive because it’s quite steep terrain.”
“It’s been very cold up there and it’s rained,” he added. “Temperatures have been in the 30s at night.”
Considering that “no one saw her fall over the side” and that “there was no evidence of tire tracks or anything on the road or the side of the road… she was very lucky.” [Ayres] I passed by here and listened to it.”
Authorities say accidents are common on the winding highway into the mountains above Los Angeles.
“But that she survived, not only the accident, but also the elements, is a New Year’s miracle.”
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