(Newswire.net — March 9, 2015) Spanish Fork, UT — An 18-month year old baby was rescued from a wrecked car that was found in the Spanish Fork River by an angler, CNN reported.
A nearby resident told the police that he had heard a loud crash the night before around 10:30. When he stepped outside to check, he saw nothing unusual, he told the police. The next day, approximately 14 hours after the crash, an angler searching for a nice fishing spot, found the wrecked car
When the man went to the Utah river Saturday hoping for a good catch, he never imagined he would catch a baby from a car that had crashed the night before. Miraculously, the baby girl survived the crash but she was submitted to a Salt Lake City hospital in a critical condition.
Unfortunately, the driver, 25-year-old mother Lynn Jennifer Groesbeck, didn’t survive the crash. She was found dead at the scene.
“This is just a tragedy all the way around,” Spanish Fork Police Lt. Matt Johnson said. “There’s not anything at the scene, as far as evidence goes, as to why the vehicle left roadway. There were no skid marks to show evasive maneuvers, to show why the vehicle left the roadway and traveled into the river,” Johnson said, CNN reported.
Police detectives are investigating the incident as a traffic accident, however, not all questions have been answered yet. Authorities, confirmed the red Dodge Caliber struck a cement barrier on the bridge and careened into the river.
As the car has been towed, Johnson told media that forensics would determine if the cause of the tragedy was malfunction of the vehicle or some other reason.
Family members of the mother told police she had left Salem, Utah, and was supposed to be heading to her home in Springville, about 9 miles away, CNN reported.
The baby survived because she was strapped in a baby seat and her head was not submerged in freezing water during the ordeal.
Authorities say the rescuing process was complicated as three police officers and four firefighters were submitted to a hospital with hypothermia symptoms, however, they were released soon after the treatment.