Cliff-plunge tourists rescued after two days
Two women spent two nights trapped in their car after it plunged off a cliff in New Zealand, emergency workers said.
British tourist Glenys Hounsome, 71, whose home town is not known, and her daughter Marion Hounsome, 40, from the southern city of Christchurch, were taken to hospital after firefighters cut down trees to clear a path to their car about 330ft down the bank, said ambulance spokeswoman Amy McDermott.
The rescue effort was only launched after tourists spotted their vehicle while stopping to take photographs in the area.
The accident happened on a road known as Cook Saddle, about three miles north of the town of Fox Glacier on South Island’s west coast, where the pair had been on holiday.
A police spokeswoman said the pair had spent two nights in their car before being found by chance this morning by tourists.
She said the pair who had been trapped had moderate injuries and were both cold from their ordeal.
McDermott said the elderly woman was flown by rescue helicopter to Grey Base hospital 110 miles away and her daughter taken there by ambulance.
Fox Glacier, a tourist area, is about 350 miles south of the capital, Wellington.
