Police recover the car which slid off a major road an into a lake, trapping five children under water for up to 45 minutes.Source: Supplied
FIVE young children were trapped underwater after their car skidded off a rain-slicked ramp and landed in a frigid pond in the US. The driver escaped.
Rescuers pulled the children from the water 25 to 45 minutes after the accident in Minnesota. The children were unresponsive, St. Louis Park city spokeswoman Jamie Zwilling said.
The Minnesota State Patrol said the children were seriously injured, but did not give details on the nature of the injuries or how the injuries happened.
The children were ages 1, 5, 5, 6 and 7, State Patrol spokesman Lt. Eric Roeske said.
The 23-year-old driver, Marion Guerrido, was in stable condition. She is the mother of three of the children. She managed to escape from the car on her own and was not hospitalised.
Roeske said there was no guardrail separating the pond from the highway ramp.
Passersby who saw the car tried to rescue the children, but it was submerged in cold water. Roeske said he was told one person stood on the roof of the car, and the ``incredibly cold, nearly freezing-temperature water'' was up to his neck.
Once the vehicle was pulled from the water, authorities saw the children inside. Zwilling said firefighters started breaking windows and pulling out the children.
Roeske said it wasn't clear whether speed was a factor in the crash.
He said there was no indication that the woman intentionally drove into the water.
No alcohol was detected on her, according to the Minnesota State Patrol, StarTribune reported online.
The State Patrol identified the children in the 1998 Pontiac Grand Am sedan as Aliyana Rennie, 1, Alarious Coleman-Guerrido, 7, Amani Coleman-Guerrido, Zarihana Rennie, 6, Zanavia Rennie, 5, taken to HCMC.
Guerrido is the mother of Aliyana Rennie and Alarious and Amani Coleman-Guerrido, StarTribune reported.
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