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Article: Australian woman survives eight-day ordeal in forest after car crash
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- September 15, 2005
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AP Worldstream
09-15-2005
Dateline: BRISBANE, Australia
A woman who survived eight nights alone in a dense rainforest after her car rolled off a remote stretch of highway in northeastern Australia is in surprisingly good condition, police said Thursday.
Kathryn Ellacott, 60, was pulled from a ravine by a rescue helicopter late Wednesday after spending more than a week alone after her car plunged about 70 meters (230 feet) down a steep embankment in the Paluma Range, about 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of Townsville in Queensland state.
The Townsville woman suffered broken bones and ...