LUCY LOOKS TO THE FUTURE
Apr 29, 2022
4 minutes
BY ROXANNE MOONEY
‘WHEN I WOKE ON THE MOUNTAIN, I FELT SO MUCH RELIEF’
SHE woke for a few moments at a time, reliving the feeling of weightlessness as her car sailed through the air. Then she blacked out again.
In those fleeting moments of consciousness, Lucy Thomas didn’t realise she was lying in the wreck of her white Volkswagen Polo, badly injured after her vehicle tumbled down the cliffs of Chapman’s Peak.
Her next memory is of the paramedics’ comforting voices as they hoisted her to safety.
“They told me I was safe and then I blacked out again,” Lucy (25) tells us from her bed in Cape Town’s Groote
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