By Khanyisa Tabata
14 November 2009
A 24 year old woman is in a serious condition after hijackers forced her out of her vehicle and pushed her over the Umkomaas River Bridge on the N2 south in Chatsworth.
Netcare 911 paramedics say the woman was plunged almost 60 metres below the bridge on Friday night and landed in shallow water.
She sustained chest, head and spinal injuries that left her immobile.
The woman managed to keep herself afloat for over four hours before a passerby heard her cries for help and rushed to aid.
Fire-fighters, who arrived first on the scene, pulled the woman out from the water while paramedics treated her for hypothermia before she was airlifted to a hospital in Durban.
Police are still searching for the hi-jackers.
14 November 2009
A 24 year old woman is in a serious condition after hijackers forced her out of her vehicle and pushed her over the Umkomaas River Bridge on the N2 south in Chatsworth.
Netcare 911 paramedics say the woman was plunged almost 60 metres below the bridge on Friday night and landed in shallow water.
She sustained chest, head and spinal injuries that left her immobile.
The woman managed to keep herself afloat for over four hours before a passerby heard her cries for help and rushed to aid.
Fire-fighters, who arrived first on the scene, pulled the woman out from the water while paramedics treated her for hypothermia before she was airlifted to a hospital in Durban.
Police are still searching for the hi-jackers.
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