Two adults got out of the car, but a young child did not manage to escape.
A child is dead after a car went over an embankment and into Lake Cushman in Mason County, according to the sheriff’s office.
At about 7:10 p.m. on June 27, deputies responded to a report of an incident involving a single car around milepost 13 on State Route 119 at Lake Cushman.Deputies were told that a car went over the embankment and was submerged in the water.The girl’s frantic parents flagged down a passing car and those good Samaritans stopped and helped.
“All I heard was ‘help my baby, help my baby! She’s stuck in the water,’” Jericho Wells told KIRO 7′s Ryan Simms. “It was really hard to get down there, because you can’t see nothing. I tried to go with my eyes open but I couldn’t see nothing.” Wells said the little girl had been below the surface for at least two minutes before another good Samaritan was able to unbuckle the child.“I couple of steps up and then we passed her and then the other guy would have to go up a little bit more because of how steep it was. You couldn’t just carry her up by yourself,” said Wells.“The mom was just screaming and crying and saying if her baby doesn’t make it, she doesn’t want to make it, and the dad was trying to console her,” Wells told KIRO 7.
Once they reached the top, CPR was performed on the child until medics arrived. However, Wells said he knew the outlook was grim.The girl was airlifted to Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma but she died.Deputies arrested the Jeep’s male driver and booked him into Mason County Jail on charges of vehicular homicide.
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