"The driver was hanging onto the vehicle as it floated downstream. The child was in a car seat in the back seat; the mother was able to unbuckle him, cut through the deployed driver's-side airbag, and emerge through the window."
"By the time an ambulance arrived about four minutes later, the mother and her son were safe on the bank of the river. The two were able to swim ashore safely."
A 26-year-old mother rescued her 2-year-old son after their car crashed into the Ottauquechee River. Firefighters responded to reports of a submerged vehicle. The mother unbuckled her son from his car seat, cut through the deployed airbag, and emerged through the window. They swam to safety and were evaluated at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, with no serious injuries reported. The cause of the crash is under investigation, and rescue swimmers confirmed no one else was in the vehicle.
Read at Boston.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]