A woman was rescued by Waterbury firefighters recently after she drove off an embankment in her car, and then tumbled in her car several feet before striking a tree.
Waterbury Police Deputy Chief Christopher Corbett reports that an elderly female driver was driving through the parking lot of a local Rite Aid when she accidentally drove off of an embankment, and suffered a potentially deadly drop, before the car came to a rest on its roof. Firefighters were called to the scene and were able to help the woman out of the car, after the nearly 60 foot drop, which occurred near 1030 Wolcott Road.
Pictures of the firefighters wrestling the woman from the car were shared on the Internet in the days following incident, depicting the woman being pulled from her car which seemed to have stopped after striking a tree.
The woman was transported to an area hospital where she was treated for non-life threatening injuries.
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