Staff Reports
Rescue workers pulled an unconscious woman from frigid water after her car crashed into a drainage ditch on Mapleton Road on Thursday night .
Dorothy L. Spencer, 83, was taken to Eastern Niagara Hospital-Lockport, after she was rescued by emergency responders.
Niagara County sheriff’s deputies said Spencer was traveling westbound in the 5400 block of Mapleton Road around 6:15 p.m. when her car veered off the north side of the roadway. The car came to rest in the north drainage ditch in about 3 feet of water, according to the sheriff’s report.
She was pulled from the vehicle by Trooper William Higgins, sheriff’s Deputy Kevin Rohde and a Wendelville fireman, as the water swirled around the front end of the car.
Spencer’s condition was not known at press time.
The sheriff’s office is investigating the cause of the crash.
