'I didn't have time to think about it.' Strangers rushed to rescue a woman who drove through a fence and plunged into the Willimantic River in Connecticut yesterday.
A woman in Willimantic was pulled from her sinking car Monday night by strangers who ran to help her.
According to Willimantic Fire Chief Marc Scrivener, the driver was having mechanical issues and was attempting to sort them out in the parking lot at Bridge Street Plaza when she accelerated to the point of crashing through a fence and into the river. "Pretty significant drop into the river," said Scrivener, who estimated that the car dropped about 15 to 20 feet into the water. “The car was pretty well full when we arrived.”
Before firefighters arrived on scene, someone noticed the car in the river and ran to the restaurant, El Guanajuato Restaurante, across the parking lot to alert others.“I didn't have time to think about it," said Manuel Gonzalez, owner of El Guanajuato Restaurante.“I saw her waving her hands at us and screaming. I asked her if she was okay. She said yes and I said, 'stay still don’t move.
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