Lady drives automobile on Canal and plunges into freezing water

INDIANAPOLIS—A girl driver drove her automobile right into a canal earlier than crashing by the ice and into freezing chilly water, the Indianapolis Fireplace Division reported. The girl informed her firefighters that she was following her GPS.

Indianapolis Fireplace Division

The IFD was dispatched to the canal at about 11:03 pm and acquired a report {that a} automobile had entered the canal and that bystanders have been attempting to assist.

By the point IFD divers arrived on the scene, the motive force had already left the automobile.

The driving force informed firefighters that her GPS led her to a canal close to the Colts Canal playspace on the outskirts of St. Clair St.

Indianapolis Fireplace Division

The driving force went down the embankment, by the park, and headed north on the canal.

As a result of the motive force got here to a useless finish at 10 o’clock^th St. She turned the automobile round and tried to go south.

Her automobile crashed by the ice earlier than she reached New York Road.

WRTV/ Photog Derek Smith

The driving force bought out of the automobile with the assistance of bystanders and waited within the foyer of a close-by lodge.

Docs checked her on the scene and she or he was taken to Eskenazi Hospital for additional analysis.

This incident continues to be below investigation.