Scott Williams, swilliams@wolfrivermedia.com
Leader Photo by Scott Williams Emergency crews survey the scene Tuesday along County Road A where a vehicle went into the Wolf River and landed upside down with the driver inside.
A motorist was hospitalized Tuesday after her vehicle landed upside down in the Wolf River north of Shawano.
Capt. Tom Tuma of the Shawano County Sheriff’s Department said the victim, a woman in her 30s, extricated herself from the overturned car.
She was taken to ThedaCare Medical Center-Shawano, but her condition was not immediately known.
The incident occurred around 5 p.m. Tuesday while the small Honda passenger car was heading west on County Road A west of state Highway 47 in the town of Wescott. Just before crossing a bridge, the vehicle left the road and landed in the river north of the bridge.
Tuma said the vehicle was almost completely submerged in 4 to 5 feet of water.
The road was closed to traffic while crews worked to remove the submerged vehicle and while they searched the area to make sure nobody else had been in the car.