Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — Authorities in Philadelphia say a police officer lost control of his personal car on a riverside drive, plunged into the water and died.
Passers-by tried to rescue 55-year-old Sgt. Stephen Naughton from the Schuylkill River. Police say Naughton had to be cut free from his seat belt and later died at a hospital.
The accident happened Tuesday afternoon on Kelly Drive after Naughton’s car veered across lanes of oncoming traffic and into the river.
The Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper reports Naughton had just left work at police headquarters.
The newspaper says Naughton was a 31-year veteran of the police force who leaves behind a wife and two children.