Washington Woman Drove Off a Cliff and Fell Into Massacre Bay. It Took 7 Hours Before She Got Rescued from the Car Crash
She tried to save a deer but ended up crashing her car into Massacre Bay.
Accidents happen when you least expect it. A quick moment can leave people with scars and other painful reminders of the event. Jazmin Harrington (@claygirlbunny) was driving one night after work. She recalled how she accidentally crashed her car into the ominously named Massacre Bay in Washington state, and her grueling wait for rescue.
“On this day, two years ago, I drove off a cliff,” Harrington told social media. She explained that she was a bartender, and she was driving home at two or three in the morning. Late nights aren’t uncommon for Harrington, but then a deer ran out of the thicket. Harrington said she swerved and went off the cliff. Her car pinballed into trees, and then it flipped sideways.
“I came to a couple of hours later,” Harrington said. She wasn’t entirely sure, because she blacked out immediately after she hit her head. The bartender noticed that it was starting to get light outside, so it must have already been four or five in the morning. She scanned her surroundings and noticed her windshield was facing a hillside. Harrington had been launched out of the car, with her foot crushed. She didn’t recall feeling the pain because of the adrenaline surging through her, but remembered how she needed to get her phone.
“The shore was low, and the tide was low,” she said. Because of that, she hopped on one foot and made it to her passenger door. The water rushed out, and she saw her belongings float in the vehicle. She couldn’t find her phone, so Harrington decided to start yelling for help.
“I knew my partner was looking for me,” Harrington stated. Because she didn’t come home, she presumed he was already searching for her. She decided the best she could do was attract attention by being loud.
It took hours before she was rescued from the car crash
“Mind you, I’m like five minutes from my house. I live on this tiny island in the Pacific Northwest. I’m so close to my house,” she said. But because of her injury, Harrington had limited mobility. The silver lining in the incident was that she knew the area. A only worse-off scenario is to be in danger in an unfamiliar area, like how this woman almost joined a cult after moving to Arizona.
Because nobody could hear her, Harrington pushed her body to its limits by moving towards the hillside. Hours went by, and she started crawling up. She would later find out in the hospital that her foot was shattered in 30 pieces. She was also informed that she had a fractured shoulder, back, and hip.
Harrington said that she saw cars driving by up the hill. This wasn’t some isolated path, and yet, her cries went unnoticed for some time. At one point, a team of younger people was sailing in the bay. But just like the people in the cars, they failed to notice Harrington’s desperate pleas for help. She was frustrated that none of the kids found it strange that there was a Chevrolet Equinox on the beach.
But then, a construction worker on the other side of Massacre Bay noticed Harrington shouting for help. The man called the sheriff, and rescue services came. By the time they came, it was already ten in the morning.
“I had a co-worker who was a part of the fire rescue team, and he was there to help me,” she said. Her partner, other co-workers, and friends have also been searching for her all morning. It took seven hours for help to arrive, but Harrington survived the ordeal.
“Two years later, I’m back. Eight surgeries later, one amputation, and I’m finally on two feet again,” she said. Harrington may have come out with injuries, but she was luckier than this family, whose car plunged into a Rhode Island river.
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