NY Motorist Rescued after 10 Hours in Car Buried by Snow Plow

By JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man who drove off the road in this week’s snowstorm spent 10 hours trapped in his car after a passing plow buried it, finally managing to get a 911 call through and being rescued in the nick of time by a New York state trooper. Kevin Kresen, 58, of Candor, drove off the road in the town of Owego and became “plowed in by a truck,” state police said. “If he was in there for another hour his body temperature would have gone lower, and I’m convinced he wouldn’t have made it,” State Police Sgt. Jason Cawley, who rescued the man, said in an interview. Related Identifying and Managing Accidental HypothermiaRecognize the Subtle Signs of Hypothermia Kresen drove off the road around midnight and called 911 through the wee hours of Thursday but had trouble connecting. “He finally got through a few times and was geolocated, but not very well because of the spottiness of the reception,” Cawley said. First responders narrowed the call to a 3-mile stretch along the Susquehanna River in Owego, outside Binghamton, which got over 40 inches of snow in the storm. Cawley climbed miles of snowbanks, finally happening on one that looked slightly different. He believed at first that he was looking at a row of mailboxes. “I reached in to find which address I was at when I punched the side window of a car,” Cawley said. “I was a little shocked because I was actually standing almost on ...
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