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[JTSimon]

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- A 5-year-old girl is in stable condition Wednesday, a day after she was discovered by highway workers near the scene of a car crash that killed her mother about 10 days ago, according to police and hospital officials.

Ruby Bustamante survived by drinking Gatorade and eating dried noodles found in the car, according to family members.

Police believe Norma Bustamante, 26, drove off a highway near Banning, California, about 70 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, plunging 400 feet over the guardrail to her death, according to Capt. Bob Clark, commander of the California Highway Patrol's station in Banning.

"It appears that the crash, the collision did occur 10 days ago," Clark said. "We're really not sure exactly how long, we're assuming it's been 10 days because of the amount of time that they've been missing."

"I couldn't imagine having to survive like that for 10 days without any help," Clark said. "It's amazing she was able to live that long."

Clark said police believe Ruby and her mother were reported missing from nearby Indio, California.

California transportation workers, repairing the guardrail on Freeway 60, "noticed movement approximately 150 feet down a steep embankment," according to a CHP report.

 
Rescuers, right, prepare to remove the body of the girl's mother on Tuesday.
The workers found Ruby, who "appeared to be uninjured, but was hungry and thirsty" near the site of the crash, the report said.

They also discovered the "very decomposed" body of the child's mother.

The girl is in stable condition at Riverside County Regional Medical Center, according to a hospital spokeswoman.

She was able to eat a hamburger and drink some apple juice, according to hospital sources.

Her great-grandfather, Bill Cooney, criticized the CHP and other authorities for not searching for Ruby and Norma Bustamante when they were reported missing on April 4, according to The Associated Press.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/04/14/girl.found/index.html

[bez]

dam, cool she survived.

[R-Tistic]

Damn..I can't even imagine how traumatizing that has to be for her. Shit, not only did she survive a crash, she survived bein in a car for fuggin 10 days with her dead mom...that is scary as hell. Many kids would have panicked and probably would have died.

[Diabolical]

The windows probably smashed or something so she was most likely outside it.

[Leggy Hendrix]

its fuckin shockin that they were there for 10 days, but great that a girl of that age knew what to do to keep herself alive. just hope she didnt see her mom in a "very decomposed" state

[akaDRooPY]

Damn..I can't even imagine how traumatizing that has to be for her. Shit, not only did she survive a crash, she survived bein in a car for fuggin 10 days with her dead mom...that is scary as hell. Many kids would have panicked and probably would have died.

.... didn't know that you could die from panicing

[eS El Duque]

Now that's a somthing, she gonna be someone important when she grow up  

[Trauma-san]

That's some amazing stuff right there.  I was going to post this as my next miracle story, but yall don't believe in miracles.  WHAT A GREAT COINCIDENCE AND TOTALLY UN SIGNIFICANT EVENT THIS GIRL WEN THROUGH!!!! YAY!!!!

[UDollar A.K.A Nino]

Amazing!!
Just amazing....

[R-Tistic]

Damn..I can't even imagine how traumatizing that has to be for her. Shit, not only did she survive a crash, she survived bein in a car for fuggin 10 days with her dead mom...that is scary as hell. Many kids would have panicked and probably would have died.

.... didn't know that you could die from panicing

Many kids would have panicked...and many kids probably would have died.

Not that you can die from panic itself, but just that panic can block your train of thought, and some kids wouldn't have really focused on survival, they might see their mom like that, and end up screamin and shit instead of gettin food, which could lead to death

[Da WCC Hopar!]

where did she go to the bathroom

[bez]

where did she go to the bathroom

She was cool, she had plenty of pampers!

[Z the laidback Virus]

WHAT A GREAT COINCIDENCE AND TOTALLY UN SIGNIFICANT EVENT THIS GIRL WEN THROUGH!!!! YAY!!!!

You say it buster..And no,God did not hand her out noodles.She found them herself.