Shortly before midnight on Sunday night. York Village Fire was dispatched to Sewall’s Bridge for a report of a vehicle in the water. C-1 arrived to find a vehicle had driven off the side of the bridge into the York River which is a salt water/tidal tributary of the Atlantic Ocean. The tide was rapidly going out which pulled the vehicle downstream and under the bridge itself. York Dispatch advised that they had a report that the driver of the vehicle may have hit a bicyclist and that person was unaccounted for so C-1 requested the activation of the Water Rescue team with Boat 1. Companies shut down Sewall’s Bridge at both ends and found the lone occupant of the vehicle in the water. The patient was transported by Ambulance 1 to York Hospital. An extensive search by the York Water Rescue team with Boat 1 with assistance from the USCG turned up no other patient and there was no indication that a bicyclist was ever involved. Companies were tied up for approximately 3 1/2 hours assisting National Wrecker Service with the recovery effort. York Fire Department SCUBA divers hooked up to the vehicle with NWS recovery equipment.
