A South African woman who paramedics had declared dead after a horrific car crash was later found alive in a mortuary fridge, emergency services said on Monday.<\/p>\n
Ambulance service Distress Alert confirmed that the unnamed woman had been certified dead by paramedics at the scene of the pile-up outside of Carletonville, southwest of Johannesburg, in the early hours of June 24.<\/p>\n
Mortuary technicians then found her alive in a morgue fridge several hours after the crash in which the victims\u2019 car rolled, throwing all three occupants clear of the vehicle, killing two of them.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe followed our procedures \u2014 we\u2019ve got no idea how it happened,\u201d Distress Alert operations manager Gerrit Bradnick told AFP.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe crew is absolutely devastated \u2014 we\u2019re not in the business of declaring living people dead, we\u2019re in the business of keeping people alive.\u201d<\/p>\n
The woman, who was taken to Carletonville hospital after being found alive in the mortuary, had shown no signs of life when she was attended to by first responders, added Bradnick.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the right checks were done \u2014 breathing, pulse \u2014 so the patient was declared deceased,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The company has now launched an investigation.<\/p>\n
\u201cParamedics are trained to determine death, not us,\u201d a source at the Carletonville mortuary told the Sowetan newspaper.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou never expect to open a fridge and find someone in there alive. Can you imagine if we had begun the autopsy and killed her.\u201d<\/p>\n
(AFP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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