Caught On Cam: Car Plunges Into Waterfall In MP, Family Saved

A video of a car plunging into a waterfall in Indore has gone viral. Luckily, the people inside the four-wheeler have been saved.

The incident took place in Simrol, some 60 kilometres from Indore city, on Sunday. In the viral clip, the red car can be seen coming towards the edge of a rock surface and falling into the plunge pool after flipping over once, during which its front door opened and then shut again, according to a PTI report.

However, a man jumped into the plunge pool and managed to save one of the occupants, while the other was saved by those in the vicinity who followed suit.

A man standing near the pool is observed leaping into the water and swiftly swimming towards a car, from which the distressed cries of a young girl are audible. The video captures other individuals descending from the rock surface and approaching the vehicle as well.

"I saw a car falling into the waterfall. A man and his 13-year-old daughter, who were the two occupants of the car, were trying hard to get off even as the vehicle was sliding. However, the car fell while the duo was inside," the news agency quotes Sunil Mathew (26), who works in a private firm, as saying.

"They were drowning. I jumped in and saved the man inside the car. His daughter was saved by those around. I was in shock for sometime looking at the incident but then gathered courage to jump in," he added.

Mathew expressed happiness over saving father and daughter.

What Cops Say>?
Superintendent of Police (Rural) Sunil Mehta said the incident took place due to the negligence of the driver. "The car was negligently parked very close to the pool of the waterfall. We have learnt that the car started rolling after its trunk was closed forcefully and then fell into the pool of the waterfall," the SP said.

The area had a sizable number of picnickers due to the monsoon as well as it being a Sunday, eyewitnesses said.