SAULT STE. MARIE, MI-- A driver in Chippewa County is lucky to be alive, after he became trapped in his partially submerged vehicle over the weekend.
Saturday around 11:30 a.m. Sheriff’s deputies and State Police responded to a report of a vehicle entering the St. Marys River at the end of 9 Mile Road. Several people in a boat found a vehicle partially submerged in the river with a man still stuck inside. Officers learned that the 73-year-old driver had driven into the water several hours earlier, but couldn’t get out of the car.
It appears he became disoriented and believed he was heading west toward I-75, when he was actually heading east.
The man was removed from the vehicle and taken to the hospital as a precautionary measure, but he didn’t complain of injuries at the scene.
