Ángela Hernández, the young woman who fell off a cliff with her car and was found alive a week later

An American woman who fell with her car in a ravine was found alive a week after denouncing her disappearance.

Angela Hernández, 23, used ingenuity to survive.

With the radiator hose of his jeep was able to extract water from a stream, as explained to the BBC by the County Commissioner of Monterrey.

Friday was found by a couple of hikers after seeing their partially submerged vehicle at the bottom of a 60-foot cliff deep in Big Sur, a region of California.

When they found her, the woman had a shoulder injury and seemed to have suffered a shock, but was aware, according to the police account.

The accident occurs when Hernandez attempts to dodge an animal on Highway 1, the famous highway on the west coast of the United States.

She leaves Portland, Oregon and heads for Los Angeles. Angeles to visit his sister

The spokesman of the Monterrey County Police Station , John Thornburg, considered that Hernandez had good luck to be alive.

"It's usually the fall or the ocean that is fatal, but it was lucky to survive."

Meanwhile, her sister Isabel wrote on Facebook that Hernandez will need time to recover from this hard experience

"This is very traumatic and will require a slow recovery process."

According to the British newspaper The Guardian Isabel wrote on the social net that her sister " is alive, talking and still trying to understand what happened . "

"She is a fighter and if she fought all this time, she will continue to make it easy."

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