A moth­er and her six-year-old daugh­ter were in­jured af­ter their car plunged about 200 feet down a precipice near the San Fer­nan­do Hill yes­ter­day.

Po­lice said around 4.10 pm, a gold-coloured Nis­san Ti­i­da dri­ven by Ka­haema By­er, 44, of Palmiste, San Fer­nan­do, was head­ing north down the San Fer­nan­do Hill. Her daugh­ter, Is­abel­la, six, was al­so in the car.

Up­on reach­ing near the Ha­ji Shaf­fick Ra­haman Park, which is a dan­ger­ous bend, By­er re­port­ed­ly lost con­trol of the car. The ve­hi­cle sub­se­quent­ly ran off the road­way and plunged ap­prox­i­mate­ly 200 feet down a precipice on the west­ern side of the steep slope, land­ing in some bush­es at the bot­tom.

A 23-year-old fe­male passer­by im­me­di­ate­ly res­cued Is­abel­la from the wreck­age.

Fire of­fi­cers from the Mon Re­pos Sta­tion re­spond­ed and lat­er res­cued Ka­haema.

Po­lice said Is­abel­la suf­fered mi­nor bruis­es to her face and feet and com­plained of pain in her right arm.

Her moth­er al­so com­plained of pain in her arms and about the body. Both vic­tims were sub­se­quent­ly tak­en to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal (SFGH) for med­ical at­ten­tion.

Po­lice and crime scene in­ves­ti­ga­tors were at the scene dur­ing the res­cue ef­forts.

In Jan­u­ary 2024, school­teacher Renée Mitchell died af­ter falling near­ly 80 feet off the near­by San Fer­nan­do Hill dur­ing a fete in what po­lice de­scribed as a freak ac­ci­dent.

PCs Ram­rat­tans­ingh and Williams, of the Mon Re­pos Po­lice Sta­tion, are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.

—Ke­jan Haynes