Drove off a 200-foot cliff | Angela Hernandez survival story — Transcript

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1. 0:00Angela Hernandez, 23 years old, went missing  in 2018 after she accidentally drove off
2. 0:07a 200-foot cliff in California. She does  not remember much about the accident.
3. 0:11She does not remember hitting her head, fracturing  ribs and her collar bone or losing air from one of
4. 0:17her lungs. But she does remember waking up trapped  in her SUV in the Pacific Ocean and the seven
5. 0:24loooong freaking days that she fought to survive.
6. 0:30On 6th of July 2018 Angela was driving through the Big Sur area on her way to Southern California, when she saw a small animal on the highway
7. 0:40and change direction to miss it. She wheel-off the  edge of a cliff, and crashed about 200 foot below,
8. 0:47where the ocean meets a rocky beach that is  mostly isolated from those who driving above.
9. 0:54The only thing She remember after that was waking  up. She was still in her car and she could feel
10. 1:00water rising over her knees. Her head hurts and  when she touched it, she found blood on her hands.
11. 1:07She said her windows were rolled  up, and the power was out.
12. 1:11She took off her seat belt and found a  multi-tool she kept near her front seat.
13. 1:16She started hitting the driver-side window  with it and every bone in her body was hurting!
14. 1:22Once the window was broken, she said, she jumped  into the water and swim until she reached the
15. 1:28shore. Then, she said, she passed out, but she  does not know for how long. When she woke up,
16. 1:35it was still daylight and it was only then that  she had finally realized what had happened.
17. 1:41She stood up onto her feet and noticed a huge pain  in her shoulders, hips, back, and thighs. She saw
18. 1:48nothing but rocks, the ocean, and a cliff that  she knew she would never be able to look over.
19. 1:55She could see her car not too far away, half  washed up on shore with the roof ripped off.
20. 2:01The next several days were no doubt a nightmare.  Angela said that she had no shoes — only socks
21. 2:08that had become ridden with holes and jeans that  were ripped to shreds — so she avoided the spiky
22. 2:15sand, stepping instead across the sun-baked  rocks as she searched the shore for help.
23. 2:21She was sunburned, hungry and dehydrated.  She survived using a hose from her car to
24. 2:27catch water dripping from moss on rocks. But up above, authorities were searching
25. 2:33for Angela, who had been reported missing while  traveling from Oregon to California. The County
26. 2:39Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that she  had last been seen on surveillance July 6th,
27. 2:44driving her white 2o11 Jeep down Highway 1  in the Big Sur area. A public information
28. 2:51officer for the sheriff’s office, told The  Washington Post that the heavy fog from the
29. 2:56coast may have made it more difficult for first  responders to spot her and the wrecked pieces.
30. 3:03But down below, Angela was there. She said she  spent her days watching cars on the road — but
31. 3:09no one seemed to see her, and they were probably  too far to hear her screams for help. She could
32. 3:16see cars driving across the cliff and felt  like if she could yell just loud enough,
33. 3:21that one could hear or see her. That’s all  it would take to make it back to her family.
34. 3:26Just one freaking person noticing her. At  night, she slept — and dreamed about being
35. 3:33rescued. She said she even imagined the face  of the person who would eventually find her.
36. 3:40But it would be two faces — Chad and Chelsea  Moore. Because 7 days after the accident,
37. 3:46two hikers were scouting out a spot for some  fishing Friday when they saw a car bumper — then
38. 3:52a smashed car. “There weren’t any signs of  people or blood or anything”, Chelsea Moore told
39. 3:58the station, but she said just to be sure, her  husband went searching for bodies. “It looked like
40. 4:04there wouldn’t have been any survivors.”  The couple walked up the beach, collecting
41. 4:09items that had spilled from Angela`s car — and  that’s when they found her hidden in the rocks.
42. 4:16Angela was right there in the rocks, just looked  like hell! But she was happy at the same time.
43. 4:22She was happy to see them. The couple asked her,  “Were you in that smashed Jeep?” and she said,
44. 4:29“Yeah that was my Jeep.” And at that point,  the couple just kind of panicked. Like:
45. 4:35“Oh my God, you were in that car  we just saw and you’re alive?!”
46. 4:40Angela said that when she saw the couple, she  first thought it was merely another dream. Then
47. 4:45she screamed, “HEEELLLPPPPP!” and then got up as  quickly as she could and ran over towards women.
48. 4:51The couple acted quickly. Chelsea ran down the  beach and up a trail to go find help while Chad
49. 4:58stayed with Angela and gave her fresh water. He told her they were a married couple who
50. 5:04loved the ocean and had been exploring when they  had come across her destroyed vehicle. The County
51. 5:09Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that Angela  had been found by two people walking in the area,
52. 5:15who called 911. Her vehicle, police said,  was partially in the water. First responders
53. 5:23roped down to Angela, treated her and then drag  her back up from the beach. She was transported
54. 5:29to a hospital and treated for her injuries. Angela wrote on Facebook that doctors later told
55. 5:35her that she had suffered a brain haemorrhage,  fractured four ribs and her collarbone,
56. 5:40and that she had a collapsed lung  and split blood vessels in both eyes,
57. 5:44among other injuries. She said that she is  grateful that the couple found her on the beach
58. 5:49and she couldn’t believe that they were even real. Damn, that girl was solid like a rock.
59. 5:57That`s it for today, stay tuned,  see you next time. Take care.