She spent six days stuck in her car in a ditch, near a highway exit. Missing since 23 July, Corine Bastide, a 45-year-old Belgian, was finally found safe and sound Monday near Liège. At the microphone of Europe 1, his son Hadrian tells how his mother survived.
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My mother was stuck in a place that is not visible
"The car was completely gone, my mother was stuck, she was aching everywhere," he says. "One thing that worked was that the car was in the shade, it went through the heatwave but it did not have the sun in the face, and then it rained a lot during the weekend, and The car was almost flooded, where she was able to use her wristband as a sponge by plunging it into the water to drink it, "says the young man. "She told me that during the six days she did not cry once, she only thought of her children, she did not want to give up on us like that."
"My mother was stuck in a place that is not visible, and where normally no one walks because it's close to a motorway exit," said the young man. "It's a lady on a pickup truck who saw the car and was seen," he says. According to RTBF, Corine Bestide's life-threatening condition has been delayed, but after several interventions, her condition is now stable.