Woman survives after driving car off Glenelg jetty
SAM RICHES
August 07, 2006 12:15am
Article from: The Advertiser
GLENELG jetty was closed yesterday after a woman drove a car along it and into the sea.
A council worker found the 24-year-old Grange woman wandering along Jetty Rd just after 6am.
She suffered a minor head wound.
An SA Ambulance spokesman said paramedics driving past were flagged down by the worker.
"He was standing with a woman who was saturated and wanted to contact police," he said.
She told them she had driven her Ford Telstar off the end of the jetty.
They advised police and she was taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for treatment to minor wounds and hypothermia.
"We went to the jetty and saw the damage," the ambulance spokesman said. Sturt police closed the jetty for several hours as divers from Water Operations found the submerged car.
Chief Inspector Grant Moyle said the woman managed to get out of the car "as it was sinking".
"She then got to shore and was found by the council worker," he said.
The woman was able to negotiate her way through walkways, council works and a grassed area before driving the length of the jetty, crashing through railings and into the water.
Police said it was only because of the time of the day that no one else was on the jetty.
A crane was used to drag the car from the sea floor around 1pm.
