Rescue workers are still marveling that a 71-year-old El Paso woman survived after her pickup truck fell 150 feet down a cliff. Worse still, she and her wrecked truck weren't found for more than seven hours.
According to sheriff's spokesman Ricky Glancey, the woman said she was driving on El Paso's Trans Mountain Road to watch the sunrise early Sunday when a brake shoe fell off and became jammed under the brake pedal. The woman then tried to pull off the road but couldn't slow down. Still going at full speed, her truck bounced off a boulder and sailed over the edge of the cliff.
It wasn't until early Sunday afternoon that a woman driving several miles away on U.S. Highway 54 saw sunlight glinting off the wreckage. She drove to the spot, found the wrecked car and called 911. Sheriff's officials haven't released the identities of either woman. However, they said the wreck victim was taken to Thomason Hospital with only dehydration and some non-life-threatening injuries.
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