In a miraculous rescue, a mother was able to save herself and pull her two-year-old child out of the back seat and swim to safety after her car plunged into the Ottauquechee River in Vermont.
The Hartford Fire Department posted about the incident on Facebook, which occurred in the area of Quechee Main Street and Mill Run Condominiums on Monday, April 6.
The fire department responded to a report of an occupied vehicle submerged in the river at 12:45 p.m. An ambulance from Quechee Station 2 arrived at the scene at 12:49 p.m. to find “a 26-year-old woman and her 2-year-old son safe on the bank of the river.”
The post described the brave mother’s rescue of her son before swimming ashore safely. The Hartford Fire Department stated:
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“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. The two were able to swim ashore safely.”
The Hartford Police Department is Investigating The Incident
Fortunately, neither suffered serious injuries. The post read:
“First responders assisted the mother and son into an ambulance and transported them to Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center for evaluation; no serious injuries were apparent.”
To confirm that there were no other occupants in the submerged vehicle, rescue swimmers were deployed. During the entire length of the operation, Quechee Main Street was closed to the public.
The cause of the incident that led the car into the river is being investigated by the Hartford Police Department.
An image of the submerged car was shared by the Hartford Fire Department, highlighting the severity of the incident that could have turned fatal if it hadn’t been for the mother’s survival instincts that safeguarded not only her own but also her child’s life.
Another image of the car being pulled out by a crane exposes a damaged front end, suggesting some kind of collision, especially since the side airbags had also deployed before the car rolled into the river.
