Dramatic Rescue Of Baby After Crash In River

Police have released body-camera footage that shows the frantic rescue of an 18-month-old Utah girl from a car that had crashed into a frigid river 14 hours earlier.  The dramatic video from emergency responders’ cameras, released Friday, shows them discovering Lynn Groesbeck, 25, of Springville dead in the front seat, then finding her daughter, Lily Groesbeck, in the back seat.

The girl arrives by ambulance at a hospital some six minutes after she was lifted from the car and shows signs of life by vomiting and regaining her breath.  A fisherman spotted the car March 7, the day after it hit a cement barrier on a bridge and careened into the river in Spanish Fork, about 50 miles south of Salt Lake City. Police said that even though the road over the bridge gets plenty of traffic, no one saw the wreck because the cement barrier obstructed the view.  The girl, who was initially listed in critical condition, was released from the hospital Wednesday.