An 8-year-old girl is missing after her family's car crashed into a creek in Texas on Christmas Eve. Her father died in the accident.
Clara Robinson went missing after her family's car hydroplaned and careened into a creek in a crash that killed her father. 8-year-old girl missing after her family's car hydroplaned off U.S. 75 and into Post Oak Creek on Christmas Eve morning During a Friday news conference authorities identified the young girl who was swept away as 8-year-old Clara Robinson. Sherman Police Chief Jason Jeffcoat said her father, Will Robinson, died during the crash.
Sign up for NBC DFW's News Headlines newsletter. At approximately 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, as the Robinson family traveled from Oklahoma to celebrate Christmas in McKinney, their vehicle careened off U.S. 75 and police received a call about a car being swept away by floodwaters in a drainage ditch of Post Oak Creek. The Sherman Police Department and Sherman Fire-Rescue were able to rescue four of the six passengers in the vehicle, one of them was a 5-year-old girl who was found underwater and unresponsive. Sherman first responders performed life-saving measures on the way to the hospital and were able to save her. According to Sherman Fire-Rescue, she was released the next day and is back with her mother and sisters.'The reports that we have is that the father did have the little girl in his arms at one time during the event and later they were seen, they weren't together. So, it looks like he was trying to save her,' said Bart Bowman with Sherman Fire-Rescue. First responders from Sherman Fire-Rescue, Sherman Police Department, Grayson County Sheriff's Office, Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas Parks and Wildlife and Texas Task Force 2 resumed search efforts to find Clara Robinson on Friday. 'Our main priority the past four days has been and continues to be finding this 8-year-old girl, we ask our community to continue to praying for this family during this unfathomable time of grief,' Sherman police chief Jason Jeffcoa
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