GPS Leads Couple To Desert, Stranded For Four Days

Sue Beard and her husband, Ray, were traveling from the northern edge of Arizona to Torrey, Utah, when they became stuck and damaged their rented car on a winding, deserted mountain road.

Married just five months, they wrote letters to their family and amendments to their wills while they weathered daytime temperatures in the 90s and nighttime lows in the 30s for four days and nights.

During the day, they would open the car doors for ventilation, but that would attract chigoe fleas that left them with hundreds of bites.

Well aware that they would not last much longer unless they ventured out for help, the Beards gathered their remaining supplies on May 31 and tried to hike back to a main road.

They were awakened by the sound of a passing motorcycle and were eventually able to get the attention of another group of riders.

The couple were airlifted to a hospital in Page, Ariz., and given intravenous fluids, but spent just five hours in the emergency room.

The Beards hope their experience will serve as a warning to other motorists who travel in unfamiliar territory without double-checking the route supplied by a GPS device. There were no signs along the route warning them of the treacherous conditions that lay ahead, the Beards said.

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