(Newswire.net — March 10, 2015) — The Red Dodge Caliber was found by an angler, upside-down with its roof submerged in the Spanish Fork River. The angler then called the police who soon arrived and flipped the car right-side up. Inside, they find a 25-year-old Lynn Jennifer Groesbeck dead in the driver seat, but her baby girl Lily was find alive at the back seat.
“We first got a report that there is an upside-down vehicle in the river. A fisherman had walked by a vehicle. We didn’t know if the vehicle was abandoned or if there was someone in the vehicle,” officers from the Spanish Fork Police Department who were first at the scene told CNN in an interview.
“It wasn’t until we are about there that we got a report sayin’ that they can see an arm thudding from the vehicle,” said Officer Tyler Beddoes.
Another officer told CNN the roof was below the water, some eight inches from the top side of the door. He said that Lily was strapped in the baby seat at the back of the vehicle so she wasn’t submerged.
The survival of the bay upside-down in a freezing environment for some 14 hours without food and water is miraculous it self, however Officer Beddoes said as they approached the vehicle they heard adult female voice calling for help, at the moment they learned the mother was allready dead.
“Help me, help me”, Beddoes said he heard. Other officers confirmed they heard the same, so they replied “we are trying, we will help you…”
At the moment four of them were able to push the car on the side, Beddoes said he saw the child strapped at the back and the mother was found already dead, as they learned later.
So who cried for help?
“For two nights I laid awake and to figure out exactly, you know… what it could be, and so many things go through your mind. But, all I know it was there, and we all heard it and that just helped us to push just harder,” Officer Beddoes told CNN.
One possible explanation is that the mother was alive until the last moment, or that she was injured in a way that flipping the car ended her life. The officers said, however, that they learned later that Lynn Jennifer Groesbeck was already deceased at the time they arrived.
Police have no explanation for the wreck. No alcohol or drugs were in play, they told KUTV. There were no skid marks leading up to the impact.