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A baby was found alive but in critical condition inside a wrecked car in Utah Saturday, 13 hours after the car the child was in plunged into a river, police said.
[fwdevp preset_id=”8″ video_path=”kw-WslvRLzc”]A fisherman found the car upside down on Saturday afternoon in Spanish Fork River, in Spanish Fork, Utah.
The girl’s mother, 25, was found dead inside the vehicle.
The baby was flown to a hospital around 50 miles away in Salt Lake City in an unknown condition.
Their names have not been released.
Police Lieutenant Matt Johnson said the woman left the city of Salem on Friday evening to drive to her home in Springville.
A resident said he thought he heard an accident at around 11pm US time, but he could not find anything.
According to a press release from Spanish Fork Police Department cited by television station Fox 13 Salt Lake City, it is thought the car hit a cement barrier on the south end of a bridge and then went into the river.
The car was discovered at around 12.30pm on Saturday.
Some of the emergency responders who attended the crash had to be treated in hospital for hypothermia, but were later released.
Agencies/Canadajournal
