Massachusetts Woman Rescued After Car Plunges Into River
A woman's vehicle crashed into a fast-flowing river in Massachusetts
— -- A dramatic 911 call shows the fear of a Massachusetts woman who was close to being swept away after her car crashed down an embankment into a river.
“Oh my God, the water’s coming in. It’s getting higher,” Debora Wrigley Dooley can be heard saying in the 911 call. "It’s too deep for me to get out and it’s rapid. It’s moving real fast."
Authorities say Dooley was driving down a street in Taunton, Mass., Monday when she swerved to avoid another car, according to local ABC affiliate WCVB.
Dooley’s car was sent careening down an embankment into the Mill River. As water filled her car, Dooley described to the 911 dispatcher how her car was moving down the river.
"It’s stopped right now,” she said. “Every once in a while it moves a little but it stops.”
Rescuers used the car’s OnStar navigation system to track Dooley’s vehicle as it moved down the river.
Around four minutes after Dooley dialed 911, rescuers arrived and pulled her to safety.
“By the time we arrived…the current had taken her car 150 yards down the river,” said Taunton Fire Department Captain Steven Lavigne.
Dooley was taken to a local hospital, where she remained overnight. Her specific injuries are not known.
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