Three Generations, Including 2-year-old Girl, Killed During Driving Lesson After Car Plunges Into River

Three generations of a family, including a two-year-old girl, person been killed during a driving instruction aft their car plunged into a Rhode Island river.

Police received a study that a car had driven into nan Seekonk River successful Pawtucket connected Sunday evening astatine nan mini boat-launching area, The Boston Globe reported.

After hours of searching for nan submerged car, authorities pulled it retired of nan h2o Monday afternoon. The 45-year-old woman, a 22-year-old female and nan two-year-old woman wrong nan car were recovered dead.

Pawtucket resident Josue Gomez told The Globe it was his wife, Floridalma Arceno, their daughter, Linora Sucely Gomez, and their granddaughter, Ana Sofia Garcia Gomez, who were killed successful nan accident.

Gomez said Arceno was school their girl really to thrust pinch their granddaughter successful nan car erstwhile his woman called him successful a panic and said, “‘It won’t brake, it won’t brake.’’

“It was nan past point she said to me,” he said.

Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves told reporters that a “Good Samaritan riding a pitchy skis successful nan vicinity heard nan car participate nan h2o and attempted to help,” The Providence Journal reported.

"While this was occurring, different individual called 911, and first responders were connected segment wrong 3 minutes,” Goncalves said.

Gomez said he hurried to nan vessel ramp Sunday evening, but nan car was already submerged.

Police tried to find nan car, but suspended nan hunt astir 1 a.m. Monday owed to mediocre conditions, according to reports.

The hunt resumed Monday morning, and by astir 2:30 p.m. ET, a tow motortruck pulled nan car retired of nan water.

“They were bully people,” Gomez told The Globe.

The Independent has reached retired to nan Pawtucket Police Department and nan Rhode Island Office of nan State Medical Examiners for comment.

Authorities called it a “tragic accident,” and said location were nary indications of foul play, according to reports.

“Preliminary findings propose nan conveyance was successful due moving order,” Pawtucket Detective Sergeant Paul Trout said successful an email to The Globe.

Pawtucket Mayor Donald R. Grebien called nan incident a “heartbreaking tragedy” successful a connection shared pinch nan media.

“Our organization mourns alongside them, and we want them to cognize they are not unsocial during this unimaginable time,” Grebien said.