It was a return journey they’d done hundreds of times before. But this time was different.
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The car that went down a 25m bank with Joe and four friends inside. On their way back down the gravel road, driving at what Joe described as “normal speed”, they hit a sharp corner a bit hard. The back wheels slipped out and the car crashed through a barrier. As they plummeted down the 25m sheer bank, the car flipped four times and landed on its roof in the river. “We were all just screaming,” Joe recalls.
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Joe has to have plates put into one of her ankles but says she is feeling fine.
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