By WKRG Staff
Published: Fri, May 09, 2008 - 10:40 pm
Last Updated: Sat, May 10, 2008 - 8:52 pm
Last Updated: Sat, May 10, 2008 - 8:52 pm
- Click here to listen to the police news conference recapping the rescue efforts.
Saturday (5/10), 1:00 a.m.
- Rescue crews have found the woman, 28-year-old Annie Sheffield Langley alive.
- Langley was located around 12:20 a.m. in shallow water and was taken by ambulance to USA Medical Center to be treated for hypothermia.
- According to authorities on the scene, Langley intentionally drove the car into Mobile Bay.
- The passenger, 54-year-old Robert Merritt from Mobile, is said to be ok. A police officer helped him out of the car shortly after it went into the water.
- Authorities on the scene confirmed what a witness told News 5, that Langley swam away from the shore and rescuers.
Saturday (5/10), 12:35 a.m.
-An ambulance has left the scene. According to a supervisor at Baldwin County 911 it is transporting someone to USA Medical Center, but we are unsure if that person is the man that was in the vehicle or the woman believed to have swam out into the water.
Saturday (5/10), 12:20 a.m.
- Authorities have set up crime scene tape in the area of a near-by boat ramp on the Causeway, adjacent to the Original Oyster House.
Saturday (5/10), 12:05 a.m.
- The vehicle has been removed from the water.
- A witness who was fishing in the area at the time the car plunged into the water tells News 5's , she saw a woman get out of the vehicle and start swimming out into the water. The bystander says she heard the woman saying she wanted to be with Jesus.
Friday (5/9), 10:40 p.m.
Searchers are looking for a woman in the water off the Causeway.
Emergency dispatchers tell News Five that a car went into the water near Ed's Seafood Shed. It happened around 9:00 p.m. Friday night.
Two people were inside the car. A man was pulled out and is okay. A helicopter is helping in the search. The car is about ten yards in the water and its roof is sticking out of the water.
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Okay, I don’t get it. When I listened to the briefing one of the reporters asked the officials was there any truth that Ms. Langley’s father had recently died and she wanted to be with him? The officers said that they couldn’t confirm that (or something like that) but my question is why would she want to take this poor other soul with her? It is one thing if you want to hurt yourself but it is a whole different story when you ATTEMPT to hurt someone else. And another thing why is there no charges being filed against this woman? She tried to kill herself and her passenger? She put the lives of the rescuers at risk by having to come out and search for her. I am sorry but I think this was a horrid attempt for attention which could have cost someone other than herself their life. Charge her with felony endangerment.