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| US woman rescued a week after California cliff plunge | US woman rescued a week after California cliff plunge |
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| A US woman whose vehicle plunged off a California cliff has been found alive a week after she was reported missing. | A US woman whose vehicle plunged off a California cliff has been found alive a week after she was reported missing. |
| Angela Hernandez, 23, survived by using the hose from her jeep's radiator to siphon water from a creek, Monterey County Sheriff's office told the BBC. | |
| She was found by hikers on Friday after they saw her vehicle partially submerged at the bottom of a 60m (200ft) cliff in the Big Sur area. | She was found by hikers on Friday after they saw her vehicle partially submerged at the bottom of a 60m (200ft) cliff in the Big Sur area. |
| Ms Hernandez was conscious but had a shoulder injury, police said. | |
| She also appeared to have suffered concussion. | |
| She told investigators she had swerved to avoid hitting an animal on Highway 1, California's famed coastal road. | She told investigators she had swerved to avoid hitting an animal on Highway 1, California's famed coastal road. |
| She had been driving from her home in Portland to Los Angeles to visit her sister. | She had been driving from her home in Portland to Los Angeles to visit her sister. |
| Monterey County Sheriff's Office spokesman John Thornburg said she was lucky to be alive. | Monterey County Sheriff's Office spokesman John Thornburg said she was lucky to be alive. |
| "It's usually the fall that gets them, or the ocean that gets them, and she was lucky to survive both," he said. | "It's usually the fall that gets them, or the ocean that gets them, and she was lucky to survive both," he said. |
| Ms Hernandez would need time to get over her ordeal, her sister Isabel wrote on Facebook. | Ms Hernandez would need time to get over her ordeal, her sister Isabel wrote on Facebook. |
| "This is very traumatic and will be a slow recovery process," she said. | "This is very traumatic and will be a slow recovery process," she said. |