Woman recalls helping driver whose car broke through the Indianapolis canal ice

INDIANAPOLIS — This Christmas will probably be one the Bowling household will possible keep in mind for a very long time.

Bowling says she and her household sometimes ice skate on the canal. They have been doing so on Christmas evening once they observed an surprising object — a automobile — driving throughout the frozen water.

“We see this girl simply drive straight onto the ice and begin going as if it is a highway,” Rachel Bowling stated.

Bowling tried to flag the motive force, a lady, down, however she wasn’t responding to any visible cues. Her uncle Jacob acquired to the automobile a couple of minute after it plunged by means of the ice.

“He simply acquired on the sidewalk on his skates and jumped within the half that she had damaged by means of and acquired to her driver’s facet window, which by that time, she had rolled down within the water,” Rachel stated. “He pulled her by means of the window and with the assistance of one other stranger, they acquired each of them out of the water.”

The driving force instructed firefighters that her GPS took her onto the canal, within the space of the Colts Canal Playspace off of St. Clair St.

Rachel is grateful her and her household have been capable of assist.

“That is high ten memorable Christmases, high two memorable Christmases,” Rachel stated.