After car wreck kills her dad, 9-year-old climbs out of canyon, walks mile to find help

[IDemo]

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]

1. Poor, brave little girl. nt.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. What a brave girl!

She must be in shock after all that. I hope she gets the care she needs...

[ProgressiveEconomist]

5. She sounds like the child of an alcoholic, which is

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]

6. Promotion of drinking in saturation ads and in the content of movies

and TV shows breeds tragedies like this one year after year.

How true.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

7. Even Rachel Maddow does it, at the end of her show

every Friday

[octothorpe]

10. It could also be the end of a long travel day and the father was tired

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]

11. They were coming home from a party at 1 a.m. n/t

[octothorpe]

12. Well that's not a good sign then...

[emmadoggy]

3. That poor little girl! What an ordeal.

She must be made of some tough stuff! How awful for her to lose her father.

[progressoid]

4. Damn.

[tblue]

8. Poor baby! Brave too. nt

[RobinA]

9. Nine Year Old Girls

can be to be a tough, pragmatic lot. Unfortunately, many of us lose that. Or have it drummed out of us.