Angela Hernandez survived a car crash after plunging 200 feet off a cliff into the ocean, escaping her sinking car, swimming to shore, and staying alive for 7 days with a brain hemorrhage, broken ribs, a collapsed lung, and fractured collarbones by collecting water dripping from a moss-covered cliff
by Algrinder
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I threw up in a restaurant and I wanted to end my life. I’m no Angela.
Considering everything that happened to her, she ought to go and buy a lottery ticket
>She had been driving home to Southern California when a small animal stepped onto the road, causing her to swerve and lose control of her vehicle, she wrote.
>The only thing I really remember after that was waking up. I was still in my car and I could feel water rising over my knees. My head hurt and when I touched it, I found blood on my hands
>”Every bone in my body hurt,” she said.
>After she got out of her car and onto shore, Hernandez said she fell asleep “for an unknown amount of time.” It was still daylight when she woke up.
>”I stood up onto my feet and noticed a huge pain in my shoulders, hips, back, and thighs.
>She went back to her car to salvage her belongings and found a 10-inch radiator hose that she kept in her sweater pocket.
**Note: The article worded the previous sentence poorly but obviously she did NOT already have a hose in her pocket, she basically removed a radiator hose from her crashed car and then kept it in her pocket.**
**At least this is how I interpreted it.**
>She used the hose to siphon fresh water dripping down the cliffs from a natural spring, Bernal said yesterday.
>”Every day, this became my ritual,” Hernandez said.
“I’d walk up and down the beach looking for new high grounds, screaming ‘help’ at the top of my lungs, and collecting water falling from the top of the cliffs.
>Hernandez said her last morning on the beach was “an especially good one.”
>When I sat up, I saw a woman walking across the shore,” she said, adding that she thought it was a dream because she had a similar dreams the last few days.
>”I screamed, ‘HEEELLLPPPPP!’ and then got up as quickly as I could and ran over to her,” Hernandez said. “She was with a man and I don’t think they could believe their eyes.”
The fact that she was saved purely by chance is truly a blessing.
[Source](https://www.9news.com.au/world/woman-plunged-california-cliff-shares-story/0c8499f1-b769-48a1-bbfa-695c7987ed7d?)
So did she die after 7 days?
Lol women drivers
It’s why I never swerve for animals.
Bless her
If you survive something like this…life sure has other plans for you rather than to die. O_O
Glad she’s ok, but I’m having trouble with that ” 10-inch radiator hose that she kept in her sweater pocket”.
Damn my day is actually pretty good
Women drivers amiright
She was a very determined woman good for her!
My second cousin drove over a cliff in CA (accidental). All they found from him was a tire from the car and a vertebrae. His mother was grateful to have proof.
Wow.
Tough cookie.
So what’s the car she was driving? Would seem like a pretty good commercial for it..
Incredible will to survive
This is why the first and most stressed lesson I tell when people learn to drive is do not swerve for animals….
Especially if you are going over 25 30 mph, to many over correct or cut to far….
If you can stop great I don’t want to hurt any poor animals either!!
But maybe hitting an animal is a far better outcome than anything this lady went through!!! She is very lucky and tough as hell
Nice octopus tattoo!
Damn. Tough lady. Not sure why it took 7 days to find her though.
Tough lady! Kudos and huge respects.
I want a movie about this woman, not the girl boss barbies Hollywood seems to push.
Yeah, that’s super impressive and all. But I once stepped on a Lego, so we’re basically the same level of superhuman.