7/25/13 - Local first responders started out the day by rescuing a woman who drove her car into Whitmore Lake in what appears to be a suicide attempt. Green Oak Township police officers and firefighters were called out shortly before 6am after a fisherman reported seeing a car sinking in Whitmore Lake, near the DNR boat launch off North Main Street. Deputy Green Oak Fire Chief Kevin Gentry tells WHMI the car was around 60 to 70 feet out in the lake with only the roof was visible. He says the woman was found inside alive and breathing through an air pocket and was quickly rescued by firefighters and brought to shore. The 1998 blue neon was removed from Whitmore Lake and the woman was transported to the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor by Livingston County EMS. Police say preliminary investigation indicates the event followed an earlier domestic dispute, noting the 54-year-old Novi woman had possibly been in the water for as long as two or three hours before the discovery. (JM)
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