Missing woman found alive after car plunges off California's Big Sur
BIG SUR, Calif. -- An Oregon woman who vanished last week in California has been found injured after her Jeep went over a cliff near Big Sur. Monterey County sheriff's Cmdr. John Thornburg tells the San Francisco Chronicle that 23-year-old Angela Hernandez of Portland was spotted Friday night by a couple walking near Highway 1.
He says the woman had an injured shoulder. However, authorities say she was alert and was walking on a remote beach when rescuers reached her.
Hernandez was last seen south of Half Moon Bay on July 6.
Family members said she had been driving from Portland to her sister's home in Lancaster in Southern California.
CBS San Francisco reorts her sister, Isabel Hernandez, posted a video on Facebook thanking everyone.
"Sorry I'm just in shock. Everybody that … helped us through the whole thing and Angela will be OK. I'm so happy," Isabel Hernandez wrote.