A 60-year-old woman who survived eight days after her car plunged into a creek bed in Queensland rainforest smiled and thanked her rescuers, authorities said.
Kathryn Ellacott was found more than a week after her car plunged about 70m in the Paluma Range, 60km north of Townsville.
The mother-of-four suffered broken bones and survived by drinking water from a nearby stream and sheltering under a rock in the bush.
Woman survives eight days after creek crash
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