After car wreck kills her dad, 9-year-old climbs out of canyon, walks mile to find help
Source: NBC News
LOS ANGELES A 9-year-old girl crawled out of a mangled SUV, climbed out of a canyon and walked about a mile in the middle of the night to find help after surviving a highway crash that killed her father in Southern California, authorities said Sunday.
The 2010 Ford Escape was launched about 200 feet down an embankment along a semi-rural stretch of the Sierra Highway in Acton about 1 a.m. Sunday, said California Highway Patrol Officer Cheyenne Quesada. The vehicle overturned several times.
The girl managed to extricate herself and walk through rugged terrain to a nearby home, but nobody answered the door, the CHP said. Then she hiked up the steep embankment and along the road to a commuter rail station where she flagged down a passing motorist at about 2:30 a.m.
"She walked quite a distance in a very, very threatening environment. It's very black out there, very dark," CHP Sgt. Tom Lackey told KABC-TV. "It's very steep and it's brushy and there's also coyotes in the background."
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polly7
(20,582 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,701 posts)She must be in shock after all that. I hope she gets the care she needs...
ProgressiveEconomist
(5,818 posts)unfortunate enough without also having witnessed the violent death of her dad. The phrase "middle of the night" and no mention of another vehicle's involvement sparked my curiosity.
The last sentence at the link in the OP is,
"The CHP is investigating whether alcohol played a role in the crash."
The booze industry IMO needs to suffer at least the same fate as the tobacco industry. Promotion of drinking in saturation ads and in the content of movies and TV shows breeds tragedies like this one year after year.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)and TV shows breeds tragedies like this one year after year.
How true.
ProgressiveEconomist
(5,818 posts)every Friday
octothorpe
(962 posts)and didn't pull over to sleep. The father could have also had a heart attack or something too. There are many possibilities as to what could have caused it.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)octothorpe
(962 posts)emmadoggy
(2,142 posts)She must be made of some tough stuff! How awful for her to lose her father.
progressoid
(49,999 posts)tblue
(16,350 posts)RobinA
(9,894 posts)can be to be a tough, pragmatic lot. Unfortunately, many of us lose that. Or have it drummed out of us.