Morgue worker notices crash victim Is still alive

(Newser) – A 72-year-old car crash victim had been in a German morgue for several hours Monday when a worker there noticed something odd: She was still breathing.

The woman was injured when her 18-year-old grandson veered into oncoming traffic on a highway about 35 miles north of Hamburg.

The resulting crash killed the woman's daughter, who had been in the back with her four sons, the youngest of whom also died; paramedics believed the grandmother had suffered the same fate. Unable to find any signs of life, they assumed she'd died of head trauma, the Local reports.

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"What exactly happened next, no one knows," says a hospital spokesperson.

When the morgue worker realized they were wrong, the woman was rushed to the hospital, where she was operated on for four hours. She is currently in a coma. (This is, of course, not the first time this has happened. See here, here, and here.)

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