She was tracked to dense bush near Yatton Park. Image/Google Maps
A pendant might have saved a 79-year-old woman from spending a cold night in dense bush yesterday.
Police were notified just after 5pm that the woman, who suffers from dementia, had wandered away from her home.
She was wearing a Wander Search pendant supplied by Tauranga Land Search and
Rescue after she went missing previously.
Searchers were able to pick up a signal from the pendant and quickly narrow down the search area to a block of bush at the east end of Yatton Park.
The woman was unable to reply to the searchers' voice appeals and it was some time before she was located in the dense bush.
