How Does Something Like This Happen?

[ArtsyGirl]

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.

Ok when I heard this I barely believed it, the construction work thats going on there blocks the main road from the Jetty entrance, so this girl had to have weaved thru carparks, buildings etc to find the Jetty and mistake it for a road.

Straight ahead is the Jetty but between bulidings is fences you can barely walk thru, this is kinda insane. I wish I had the power to rob people of the ability to drive. Lucky there were no fishermen on the Jetty when her brain failed.

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,20041574-2682,00.html

 

[Hymnz]

australians

 

[Vaudeville]

jetty?

 

[PELLA]

i dont understand...

 

[Duke]

jetty?

Aye, this word was new for me too. Some sort of pier perhaps?

 

[Pittsey]

Aye, this word was new for me too. Some sort of pier perhaps?

Yep

 

[ArtsyGirl]

Duke, Pittsey = Smart boys. :laugh:

 

[jbrolax]

I thought a jetty was like rocks compiled in rows like a pier?

 

[Duke]

I thought a jetty was like rocks compiled in rows like a pier?

That is a pier I think...


Artisticgurl, enlighten us, what's the difference between a pier and a jetty?

 

[jbrolax]

As far as i know this is a jetty
http://www.shutterandpupil.com/images/rock_jetty.jpg

 

[Dante]

Knew he was defeated, but I wasn’t done yet
So I shot him with the shotie, then I jetted in the jet

 

[EDouble]

lmao that shits halarious

 

[SicC]

Stupid comes in all shapes and forms and manners.

pz

 

[_carmi]

lmao that shits halarious

lol @ putting it in your sig

 

[ArtsyGirl]

That is a pier I think...


Artisticgurl, enlighten us, what's the difference between a pier and a jetty?

As far as I understand it a Pier and a Jetty are the same thing, just Aussies use the term Jetty and other countries such as America say Pier or "boardwalk". Consider yourself enlightened.

 

[Tru Principle]

whoa

pz

 

[Shahin]

^^Dissing Tru Principle makes me all giddy inside, I suppose that's my main reason.

 

[Tru Principle]

hahaha^ you're a dead man.. man