GARY, Ind., July 28 (UPI) -- Divers searched the Little Calumet River Thursday for a 2-year-old girl who was ejected from an SUV that hit the side of an Indiana bridge.
The toddler fell 40 feet into the shallow, fast-moving water after 8 p.m. Wednesday night when a sport-utility vehicle driven by her mother slammed into a guardrail on Interstate 90 in Gary, Ind.
Three other children in the vehicle were uninjured. Police said the 2-year-old was riding in the back seat without a child-safety seat and was too small for the regular passenger seatbelt to restrain her.
A truck driver heard the mother's screams from a nearby toll booth and plunged into the water but was unable to locate the child.
Members of the Gary and East Chicago, Ind., fire departments and the Lake County Dive Team searched the bottom of the river for the body of the missing girl.
