MOAB — Crews on Saturday were using sonar to search the bottom of the Colorado River for a car and a 5-year-old girl that disappeared in the icy water south of Moab.
The car, with a Colorado family inside, plunged down a 60-foot canyon and fell into the river Friday afternoon.
The driver, Evelyn M. Maestas, 60, of Mancos, and her daughter Tori, 11, were able to escape through a broken window and get out of the river, authorities said. They told authorities they saw Maestas’ granddaughter, 5-year-old Danica, also of Mancos, still inside the Nissan as it sank.
Crews searched for the car and the girl Friday. They resumed early Saturday, walking the river’s shoreline and using the sonar technology, said Sgt. Jeff Nigbur, a Utah Highway Patrol spokesman. The sonar, attached to a boat on the surface, provides underwater images of the river bottom. The Associated Press
