Divers rescue woman who called 911 from sinking car

A woman called 911 from inside a sinking car after she drove into a freezing pond in Indianapolis on Sunday night.

‘It’s filling up. It’s cold,’ she said to the dispatcher from the submerging SUV.

Her car broke through an icy retention pond at about 8.30pm on New Years Eve. 

 Divers found the car 20 feet from land and 12 feet deep in the water

When the first Indianapolis Fire Department unit arrived, they found the car about 90 percent submerged but could hear her banging on the window, according to Fox 59. 

The first diver was in the water 15 minutes later and found the car about 20 feet away from land and 12 feet underwater, according to the Indy Star.

‘It’s unclear as to how or why she was on the ice, but she came from a parking lot area, got onto the pond somehow and drove about 150 yards before, either she realized she was on the pond, or she was driving and the pond just broke through. We’ll never really know until we can talk to her,’ IFD Battalion Chief Rita Reith said. 

When the first Indianapolis Fire Department unit arrived, they found the car about 90 percent submerged but could hear her banging on the window 

One of the divers used a tool to break the car’s sunroof and free the woman

One of the divers used a tool to break the car’s sunroof and free the woman. 

The woman’s name has not yet been released, and she is in critical condition at Eskenazi Hospital.

‘It’s cold weather, cold water, we’re all hoping for the best. ‘She still remains in critical condition and the divers just did a heck of a job, everybody here worked really hard to get this woman out of the water,’ Reith said. 

Temperatures were around 0 degrees on Sunday night.

She had driven approximately 150 yards out onto the pond before her car broke through the ice 

The woman’s name has not yet been released, and she is in critical condition at Eskenazi Hospital

The accident occurred at the Sundance Apartments off of Mcfarland Boulevard on the south side