MANSFIELD TOWNSHIP, MI-- A mail delivery driver may have saved a 69-year-old woman’s life when she became lost driving from Menominee to Republic Thursday.
Around 3:35 p.m. troopers from the Negaunee Post were dispatched to the Fence River Road area in Mansfield Township on a report of a lost motorist in distress. Central Dispatch had received a call from a Republic woman that her sister had gotten lost while driving. The caller said her sister had taken a wrong turn and gotten stuck in a snowbank in a remote area. The Menominee woman told her she stayed with the car until it ran out of gas, then she started walking to stay warm. Temperatures at the time were hovering around zero.
Police were able to locate the woman’s vehicle by pinging her cellphone. They followed footprints and eventually located the woman nine miles from her vehicle. She had encountered a local mail delivery driver and was sitting in the car to warm up. She said she’d been walking since 10 a.m.
The woman refused medical treatment and was taken to her sister’s residence in Republic.
