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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.