A woman who drove her car into a ravine to avoid a collision with a deer spent four nights in a car accident.
The anonymous driver was traveling on a winding road outside Los Angeles near Baldy Mountain, California. She swerved to avoid a collision with a deer and fell approximately 250 feet into an embankment, crushing her pickup truck in brush.
The woman reportedly broke her ankle. CNN They reported that they survived the sub-zero temperatures by using blankets and other supplies in their car. She also reportedly installed a bowl in her truck to collect rainwater.
The driver was reportedly trapped standing with part of his head sticking out the window. However, due to his injuries, he was unable to escape on his own.
On the fifth day, a fisherman found the woman while walking along the road and heard her faint cries for help.
“I don't know how she survived,” Chris Ayers told a CNN affiliate. She added: “I looked at the handle and she was folded up like a taco. Her head must have hit it.”
Ayers had no cell phone service, so he walked to the road for help. He tried to signal an ambulance, but the ambulance wouldn't stop. A Forest Service truck then stopped.
San Dimas Mountain Rescue eventually came to the woman's aid and said the truck “was not visible from the road.” According to the San Dimas Mountain Rescue Team, Ayers' “quest for new fishing grounds ultimately saved her life.” wrote on Facebook.
First responders noted that without the blanket, the woman may not have survived.
“It was very cold up there, so that probably helped her a lot,” Los Angeles County Fire Department Capt. Ian Thrall told ABC7. “If I didn't have anything to keep me warm at night, things might have been very different.”
The county's fire and aviation unit transported the woman to the hospital.
Ayers attributed the rescue to divine intervention, saying, “It must have been God's leading. I just happened to stop in that one spot.”
“It's like fate,” he said.
A few days ago, a man similarly survived six days in a crushed car under a bridge in Indiana. Unable to pump water into containers, the men filtered rainwater falling from the drains through their shirts. He was rescued when he encountered two men on a walk while on his way to a local Bass Pro Shop.
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