A California woman survived four freezing nights in her entire truck after the vehicle plunged more than 250 feet into a canyon.
The unidentified woman spent five days and four nights in a mangled Ford Ranger after she lost control of the vehicle while swerving to avoid a deer on Mount Baldy Road in San Bernardino on January 3.
He was unable to get help because of the thick brush and treacherous landscape of Angeles National Park — and apparently survived on the supplies he had in his truck, including some blankets to keep him warm when the temperature dropped below freezing.
The woman was finally found on Sunday by Chris Ayres, who was hiking in the Angeles National Forest when he heard a driver calling for help.
“There was a plane flying high and I think he was desperately trying to wave his hand or something and he was screaming, screaming for help, and that’s when I heard it,” Ayres told ABC 7.
“He screamed again for help and I said, ‘Hello, are you there?’ And he said, ‘Yeah, can you call 911, I’ve been here for days.’ And I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.”
Ayres said he found the woman appeared injured, but was alert.
An unidentified woman spent five days and four nights in her wrecked Ford Ranger after she lost control of the vehicle while swerving to avoid a deer on a California mountain road. San Dimas Mountain Rescue Team
“He didn’t think he would come another night.
“He said he was making his bed for the night. He just said he didn’t think he would make it.”
Ayres said he tried to call 911 twice, but had poor cellphone reception, so he ran back to Mount Baldy Road and flagged down a US Forest Service truck.
Engine Capt. Matt Brossard was in the vehicle, and said his team was responding to another incident nearby when they became aware of it.
Ayres then took them to where the woman was trapped in her crumpled Ford Ranger.
“He was stuck in the driver’s seat,” Brossard told the San Francisco Gate.
“I don’t know how he survived,” Ayres added. “I saw the steering wheel almost folded like a taco. It must have hit his head.”
Authorities said the woman was able to survive on supplies in the vehicle. San Dimas Mountain Rescue Team
Working together, firefighters, California Highway Patrol officers and deputies with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department were able to extradite the woman through the windshield.
He was then sent to a nearby hospital.
He is believed to have suffered a broken ankle, and Sheriff’s Deputy Robert Dondanville speculated to NBC Los Angeles that he may have suffered from hypothermia, dehydration and malnutrition.
Working together, firefighters, California Highway Patrol officers and deputies with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department were able to extradite the woman through the windshield. San Dimas Mountain Rescue Team
“He’s pretty lucky,” Fire Department Capt. Ian Thrall told CBS News, claiming that “most of the time [drivers] don’t hold back because the terrain is quite steep.”
“It’s very cold up there and it’s raining,” he added. “Temperatures are in the 30s at night.”
Since “no one saw him go over the side” and there was “no evidence of tire tracks or anything on the road or on the side of the road… he was very lucky [Ayres] happened to come and hear it.”
Authorities say accidents are common on the winding road into the mountains above Los Angeles.
“But he survived, not only the accident, but also the elements is a miracle of the New Year.”
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