GROSSE POINTE FARMS — An alert motorist who called 911 immediately enabled Grosse Pointe Farms Public Safety Department officers to save the life of a woman who had driven into Lake St. Clair.
The witness called the emergency number when she saw a vehicle on the opposite side of Lake Shore Road drive into the water in the area of Newberry Road at around 8:20 a.m. Aug. 4. Within two minutes, officers arrived on the scene, where they found the woman’s vehicle — a Kia — partially submerged and the body of the woman, 70, of Detroit, floating face down in the lake, roughly 50 yards west of the vehicle and 30 feet from the shore.
Detective Keith Colombo, a member of the Farms’ dive team, said every officer on shift at the time raced to the scene. Fellow dive team members Lt. Wes Kipke and officer Jon Ross, along with officers Will Madsen and Joseph Maurer, headed into the lake to get the woman out of the water, while Detective Roger Wierszewski and Detective Lt. Antonino Trupiano stayed at the shoreline to pull the woman up over the breakwall and onto land…