Listen to mother's frantic 911 call while car is swept away
Digital Reporter
Thursday, December 3, 2015, 2:32 PM - You can hear the horror in Oklahoma resident Britta Franck's voice as she describes her surroundings to 911 dispatch. A creek was swallowing her vehicle with multiple passengers including, Franck's three children and grandmother.
"The car is under water, we need help," Franck screams in the video above. "I've got my kids and my grandmother. I need to talk to somebody, I need to know that they're coming. Please stay on the phone, I'm scared!"
The family had been driving in Franck's Yukon XL in Little Horse Creek in Afton, Oklahoma, when the mother's GPS redirected her to a rural road. Franck was driving over a bridge when suddenly the vehicle was caught in a swift current and thrown into the creek.
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"We went down the creek about the distance of a football field and then we hit a tree and that is when (the SUV) flipped onto its side," Franck told Tulsa World. "I turned around and looked and the baby was underwater in his car seat."
Thankfully, Franck's was able to unlock her son's car seat after the vehicle flipped onto its side. She was also able to place her two other children on top of the SUV as she held her youngest close to her.
The family was stuck in the water for about 45 minutes before they were pulled to safety, Tulsa World reports.
Emergency crews were able to rescue the family, pulling them 200 yards to an ambulance.
"It's just kind of shock, you see it, and you just go. You just literally react," Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper Micah Stinnett told CNN. "Everybody appeared to be in kind of a hypothermic state. I mean it's 32 degrees (Fahrenheit), raining and the water is freezing."
Franck, her children and grandmother were treated and released from Integris Baptist Regional Health Center.
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Source: Tulsa World
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