Woman missing for 5 days found alive in crashed Hummer near Adelanto
A woman who was reported missing five days ago was found alive Saturday evening in a Hummer that crashed near Adelanto in the Mojave Desert, authorities said.
The first calls about the crashed vehicle came shortly before 6:15 p.m., when the San Bernardino County Fire Department said it received reports that the vehicle had rolled down a hill off Torosa Road, trapping one person inside.
Because of the difficult terrain, it took firefighters, sheriff’s deputies and search-and-rescue workers about an hour to reach the vehicle, stabilize it and rescue the woman inside, officials said. During that time, rescuers learned the woman had been reported missing five days earlier.
The woman — described only as an “older adult female” — was flown to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, officials said. They described her injuries as serious but not life-threatening.
The woman’s name has not been released. It was not immediately clear how she came to be reported missing.
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