TAIF, 1 July 2005 — A woman teacher died when the car she was inside rolled over the edge in the Al-Hada mountains yesterday morning, according to Al-Watan.
The teacher was on her way back from Jeddah with her brother who was driving the vehicle.
On reaching the top of Al-Hada mountains, the car ran out of fuel and they could not complete their journey to Taif.
The teacher’s brother decided to seek help from a cousin who worked at the nearby checkpoint, but unfortunately the man had finished his shift.
The brother then proceeded to push the car to an empty area toward the top of the mountain close to the checkpoint, where he parked it and left his sister inside. He then went down the mountain in search of someone to look for fuel.
While the brother was walking down the slope to look for fuel, the car began rolling toward the edge of the mountain. In a fruitless attempt to help his sister, he raced back to the car, but was too late.
The car with the teacher in it toppled over the mountain edge.
Security staff at the checkpoint hurried to the site but the car with the woman inside it had already fallen down more than 200 meters.
A Fire Department team went down the mountain slope to locate the remains of the woman, finding part of the body in an initial search.
A fire department helicopter was used to locate and collect the rest of her remains, which were found some distance away from the vehicle and were then taken to King Faisal Hospital in Taif.
According to sources, the victim was a divorcee and mother of seven children. Her father had sent her brother to get her after the school term had ended in Jeddah where she was a teacher.
She was in the process of moving back to Taif where her father and family live.
At King Faisal Hospital, her brother was treated for shock at the sight of losing his sister and minor injuries he suffered in his failed attempt to save her.
