Crews Trying To Rescue Woman Trapped Down Mt. Hamilton Ravine Since Monday

Rescue crews this morning are trying to extricate a woman who has been stuck in a car since Monday after it went about 500 yards down a ravine on Mt. Hamilton in Santa Clara County, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said.

The car went off Mt. Hamilton Road at some point Monday and remained missing overnight, CHP spokesman Officer Ross Lee said.

CHP officers and Santa Clara County sheriff’s deputies searched for the vehicle and eventually found it around 5:30 a.m. today down a ravine, Lee said.

The sole occupant of the car, a Campbell woman believed to be in her late 20s, had suffered major injuries and was stuck in the car, Lee said.

A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter was brought in to assist in the rescue operation, which was still underway as of about 8 a.m., he said.

Westbound Mt. Hamilton Road remains closed this morning near the Mt. Hamilton Grandview Restaurant and drivers are advised to take Quimby Road as an alternate route, according to the CHP.

--Bay City News