Woman Declared Dead Later Found Alive in Morgue An unnamed South African woman was pronounced dead by paramedics after being involved in a car accident on June 24. Her body was sent to Carletonville morgue in Gauteng province, where a worker later found her breathing in a morgue fridge. According to South Africa's TimesLive website, the ambulance company, Distress Alert, said she had shown "no form of life." The woman is recovering in the hospital, but her family wants answers. Family member, to the BBC Gerrit Bradnick, the operations manager for Distress Alert, said there was "no proof of any negligence" on the company's behalf. Gerritt Bradnick, Distress Alert operations manager, to the BBC This isn't the first time a person was accidentally declared dead in South Africa. According to the BBC, In 2011 a 50-year-old man woke up in an Eastern Cape morgue, and in 2016, another road victim from KwaZulu Natal was found breathing a day after being declared dead.
