Who called out to police in fatal Utah crash?

Via nj.com by Kelly Roncace

It seems to have played out like a scene from a movie.

Sometime during the night of March 7, Lynn Jennifer Groesbeck, 25, lost control of her car, hit a concrete barrier and careened off of a small bridge over Spanish Fork River in Utah.

The car landed on its roof in 40-degree water.

Approximately 14 hours later, a fisherman spotted the vehicle and called for help.

When police arrived, they found a mid-sized car overturned in the water.

There were no signs of life until the officers heard a voice.

"I felt like I could hear somebody telling me they needed help," said one responding officer. "It was very surreal."

But that officer wasn't the only one to hear the voice - later described as that of a woman, not a child.

All the men said they heard the same distinct voice asking for help.


Without hesitation, the officers jumped into the frigid water to save the person who had been calling out to them.

One officer even answered the woman, saying "we're trying our best to get in there."

With adrenaline surging, the men flipped the car back over onto its wheels.

That's when they saw Groesbeck obviously dead in the driver's seat and 18-month-old Lily unconscious in her car seat in the back.

The baby was properly strapped into her car seat and had been hanging upside down since the accident.

The officers got into the car, retrieved the girl and she is now, reportedly, doing well.

But who had called to them for help?

One officer said the voice wasn't "something that was just in our heads."

"To me it was plain as day," he said. "I remember hearing the voice. It didn't sound like a child just saying help me."

The officers all agreed that someone had called for help from inside the car.

However, they can't explain who the voice had come from.

We're often told of guardian angels, or of deceased loved ones watching over us.

Perhaps these officers experienced this spiritual phenomenon first hand.

And hopefully, when Lily grows up, she will hear the story of the helpful voice who called to the officers who saved her life.

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