Updated: 10:55 PM EDT May 4, 2021 A good Samaritan on Sunday jumped into a bay to save a toddler in Ocean City, Maryland, who fell into the water below after being ejected in a crash. Seven others were also injured, according to the Ocean City Fire Department.Officials said emergency crews were called at 2:47 p.m. to the Maryland Route 90 bridge for a crash involving a vehicle that was half way over the guardrail.Officials said the 2-year-old was ejected from the vehicle that was teetering over the guardrail, landing in the Assawoman Bay below. Officials said a good Samaritan jumped over the guardrail and into the bay, rescuing the toddler.Firefighters secured the vehicle with rescue tools while paramedics treated multiple patients. Seven people were taken to hospitals, and the girl was flown to Johns Hopkins Children s Center in Baltimore.As of Monday, the 2-year-old girl remains in stable condition at Johns Hopkins Hospital, police said in a news release. All others who
Ocean City, Md., police released an update Wednesday on the condition of the 2-year-old who was thrown off the Route 90 bridge Sunday during a five-car crash.
The toddler has been released from Johns Hopkins Children s Center in Baltimore and is back home with her family, according to Ashley Miller, deputy communications manager for the Ocean City Police Department.
She is expected to make a full recovery, Miller added.
Police previously said Monday afternoon that the toddler was in stable condition.
The toddler was airlifted by Maryland State Police to Baltimore on Sunday after she was ejected from a pickup truck and fell several dozen feet into the Assawoman Bay near Ocean City.
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Over the weekend, a heroic, unnamed good Samaritan jumped into action literally when an infant was thrown into a bay in Maryland after a car crash on a bridge.
Ocean City officials praised the man, saying in a statement that “a heroic witness jumped from the bridge into the bay and rescued” the 2-year-old girl, who is now in stable condition, according to The Washington Post.
The incident took place just before 3 p.m. Sunday on a bridge crossing Assawoman Bay, when a crash forced one vehicle partially over the guardrail, sending the little girl out of her car seat and into the water some 25 feet below.
A good Samaritan jumped into water and saved a toddler who fell out of a car, authorities say
The 23-month-old girl who fell out of a car and into a bay Sunday after a multi-vehicle crash on a bridge in Ocean City, Maryland, is expected to make a full recovery thanks to a “humble hero” who jumped into the water to save the child, authorities said Monday.
Eight people were taken to hospitals Sunday after the crash on the Route 90 bridge left a car dangling off the guardrail, authorities said. All eight were discharged from hospitals and are doing well, Ryan Whittington, firefighter and medic at Ocean City Fire Department, told CNN on Monday.
Bystander Rescues Infant Flung into Maryland Bay After Crash
3 May 2021
A bystander dived off a highway guardrail into a Maryland Bay on Sunday to rescue an infant flung from a car into the water after a crash, authorities said.
The infant was flung from the car on the Route 90 bridge in Ocean City, Maryland, and plunged into the Assawoman Bay, according to a statement posted on Facebook by the Ocean City Fire Department:
At least eight people were injured in the crash, according to the fire department.
Authorities were dispatched to the scene shortly before 3:00 p.m. and found one car hanging off the bridge, officials said.