But the interests being expressed in a lot of these comments reveals more of a desire to judge or be entertained, rather than explore the cause-and-effect relationships at work, or to even try to put oneself in the same situation. As scientists, we go on the assumption that situations like this most likely have serious and complex causes. What made a person, who obviously didn't want to end up half-submerged in a lake, engage in the sort of perceptual or cognitive errors that caused the outcome? Was it primarily distraction, low experience, environmental factors, or some combination of these and other things? Yes, I was involved in research at UMTRI, where we didn't take the subject of human error lightly. I'm personally more interested in knowing the specific cause and effect relationships at work. Justcurious: This is something I hear often (or variations thereof): it makes no sense. He can be reached at or you can follow him on Twitter. The car was later towed ashore with minor damages, he added. She was uninjured, but quite shaken up, Burke said. Three rescuers in wet suits dragged a rope out to the woman and safely brought her to shore. The back of the woman's car was submerged when fire crews and the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office Dive Team arrived, Burke said. "Then the car drove right into the opening." "I saw the swans move out of the way as the car approached the hole," O'Brien said. O'Brien said the Monte Carlo ended up near an area of open water where a dozen swans generally congregate. The ice on most of the lake is "pretty thick," Burke said, but there is a spring that feeds into it which leaves some areas open. When she realized she wasn't on the road, the woman told fire officials she tried driving across the lake. Tim Burke of the Dexter Area Fire Department.Īmy Conway O'Brien, an area resident who lives on the lake, said the car drove off McGregor Lane, through one of her neighbor's backyards before ending up on the ice.īurke said the woman, who was described as about 24 years old and from the Dexter area, thought she was still on the road at first. The woman was driving on McGregor Road when she went off onto McGregor Lane and then onto the lake around noon Sunday, said Lt. Rescuers got the woman to safety from her Monte Carlo, which was stuck on thin ice about 400 to 500 feet from shore on Dexter Township's Portage Lake. Rescuers work to save a woman who accidentally drove her car onto Portage Lake Sunday.Ī woman rescued Sunday from a car partially submerged in a Washtenaw County lake thought she was still on the road when she drove onto the frozen body of water, fire officials said. Photo courtesy of Amy Conway O'Brien /calendar/photologue/photos/00 Portage Lake/cache/IMAG1270_fullsize.jpg
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