A 67-year-old man, David Lavau, went missing. After several days of radio silence from him, his kids reported him missing to the police. The Lavau set out to find their dad on their own, while rescue workers conducted an official search party. His daughter Lisa had began the search after authorities told her that her father had used his debit card at a nearby grocery store. Using his recent cell phone activity to triangulate his possible location, Lisa decided to search the area with her daughter and brother. They started in Oxnard, California, and ended in Castaic, a sparsely populated area nearly 50 miles away. They stopped at every ravine and didn't stop screaming for him. Finally, Sean shouted into a roadside ravine and heard a voice respond. He looked down and saw his father's mangled blue car. They located him at the bottom of the ravine in the Angeles National Forest in California on Thursday. Sean got to his father and asked how he made it. He told him that he drank water in the river, and ate bugs a leaves. David suffered multiple rib fractures, a dislocated shoulder, a broken arm and multiple fractures in his back. Surprisingly, none of his injuries were life threatening. Another wrecked vehicle had been found near David's from an unrelated accident, smashed at the bottom of the ravine. There was a decomposing body of a man inside the car who has not yet been identified.
This is an amazing story about someone who survived a horrible crash, that another man had not. Obviously, something needs to be done about that road and ravine.
http://thedaleygator.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/six-days-after-cliff-plunge-kids-find-dad/
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