Woman on phone falls into river and drowns (backstory in pinned comment)

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The background story said that the water is only about 5 feet deep, but have a slippery underground (I assumed it's meant the bottom is slippery)

It was a freaky accident, and one might wonder why couldn't she save herself if the water only 5 feet deep.

First of all, she's look like not that tall, maybe as tall as the water was deep (5 feet or around 150 cm), meant if she stood upright in the water her nose and mouth would still be underwater.

Second, her attire (maybe her pants) might absorb water and clung to her legs and/or become heavy, hindering her movements so she could not not swim (and she's not much a swimmer by the look of it)

Third, maybe this was low key critical, her feet might slip continuously on the slippery bottom, so she could not get any footing at all, and kept slipping as she panicked and tried to recover her footing in vain.

This almost exact same accident led to my stepmother's demise a few years ago (she's 42 years old at that time). She's taking a short cut when walking home from a neighborhood gathering. She's wearing high-heeled shoes and she slipped and fell into a pond, just like the woman in the video. Her high heels slipped on the moss-covered bottom and she's unable to save herself and drowned. The whole ordeal caught in a couple of CCTV.

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I'm so sorry this happened to your stepmother.

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thank you

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underrated comment youre actually fucking smart (or im just stupid)

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lol, I'm not. It's just my late stepmother had almost the exact same accident, she drowned in 5 ft water, which was hard to believe until we saw the cctv footage

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damn

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In my stepmother's case, she's wearing tight, long traditional dress and high heels. She slipped and fell into a pond, maybe 5 to 5.5 feet deep. The bottom was tilted and slippery. From the CCTV footage we thought that her high heels slipped and slid on the slippery, tilted bottom and she slipped repeatedly and could not stand upright and her heavy long dress soaked with water hindered her more, she struggled for a few minutes before drowned.

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Thanks, mate!

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You're welcome !

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