Tonya
04-14-2004, 11:58 PM
This is so horrible and sad. It breaks my heart thinking about it. This little girl needs our thoughts and prayers.
Girl Rescued 10 Days After Car Crash
Mother Likely Died Right Away, Coroner Says
POSTED: 10:44 p.m. EDT April 14, 2004
MORENO VALLEY, Calif. -- Her 6-year-old daughter survived for 10 days in a ravine after a car crash -- but authorities say the mother likely died right away.
The coroner in Riverside County, Calif., says an autopsy indicates Norma Bustamante likely died within minutes of the accident from blunt force trauma. Relatives of Bustamante's daughter, Ruby, say the girl told them her mother survived for a couple of days after the crash.
Ruby's great-grandfather says she told him she survived on ramen noodles and Gatorade. But she doesn't appear to remember much about the crash.
Ruby and her mother were reported missing April 4. State transportation department workers repairing a road barrier yesterday discovered the crash site -- 150 feet down a ravine off a highway some 70 miles east of Los Angeles.
Ruby is recovering from dehydration.
Girl Rescued 10 Days After Car Crash
Mother Likely Died Right Away, Coroner Says
POSTED: 10:44 p.m. EDT April 14, 2004
MORENO VALLEY, Calif. -- Her 6-year-old daughter survived for 10 days in a ravine after a car crash -- but authorities say the mother likely died right away.
The coroner in Riverside County, Calif., says an autopsy indicates Norma Bustamante likely died within minutes of the accident from blunt force trauma. Relatives of Bustamante's daughter, Ruby, say the girl told them her mother survived for a couple of days after the crash.
Ruby's great-grandfather says she told him she survived on ramen noodles and Gatorade. But she doesn't appear to remember much about the crash.
Ruby and her mother were reported missing April 4. State transportation department workers repairing a road barrier yesterday discovered the crash site -- 150 feet down a ravine off a highway some 70 miles east of Los Angeles.
Ruby is recovering from dehydration.