When firefighters arrived on scene, they found the car partially submerged, and the two occupants standing in waist-deep water.
View full sizeSpringfield Rescue Squad firefighter Juan Morales moves to secure a winch cable to lift a Chrysler Sirrus from a brook off Breckwood Boulevard. The car went off the road, down an embankment and landed upside down in the brook. Two people were injured.
SPRINGFIELD - A driver and his female passenger were injured Friday night after his car went off Breckwood Boulevard, down a 30-foot embankment and landed upside down in a brook that leads to Breckwood Pond, according to Fire Department spokesman Dennis Leger, aide to Fire Commissioner Joseph Conant
When firefighters arrived on scene, they found the car, a Chrylser Sirus, partially submerged, and the two occupants standing in waist-deep water. Both said they were injured, and firefighters used a gurney and ropes to haul the woman up the embankment.
Both were taken by ambulance to Baystate Medical Center for treatment of undisclosed injures, Leger said.
Their names were not available.
The accident remains under investigation by the Springfield police.
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