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An 18-month-old baby girl was found alive inside this wrecked car Saturday in Utah, about 14 hours after the accident. But the child's 25-year-old mother was found dead.

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Four Utah rescuers swear they heard a voice calling for help from an overturned vehicle in an icy river.

After they flipped the vehicle, which was on its hood in the Spanish Fork River, they discovered inside only a deceased woman and her unconscious 18-month-old girl, who had hung upside down for about 14 hours.

"We're not exactly sure where that voice came from," Spanish Fork Officer Jared Warner told the Deseret News.

The infant, Lily Groesbeck, survived as the water flowing through the car never touched her as she hung by straps in her car seat, police said.

Her mother, Lynn "Jenny" Groesbeck, 25, of Springville, Utah, was found dead in the car, police said.

The girl was listed Sunday in stable but critical condition at a Salt Lake City hospital.

"She is doing remarkably well considering the circumstance. The doctors have been hopeful so far," the mother's sister, Jill Sanderson, told KSL-TV of Salt Lake City. "We would like to express our appreciation to the Spanish Fork rescue team for saving the baby's life."



The car was discovered by a fisherman at about 12:30 p.m. Saturday in Spanish Fork, about 50 miles south of Salt Lake City.





The car hit a cement barrier on a bridge before careening into the river, investigators said. The vehicle was difficult to see from the road because it landed under the bridge.

The temperature fell into the 30s overnight while the girl was trapped in the car. Three police officers and four firefighters who rescued her were treated for hypothermia.

According to the Deseret News, Bryan Dewitt was one of the first officers to arrive. As he and others approached, he told the newspaper, they heard a voice:

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We were down on the car and a distinct voice says, 'Help me, help me,'" Dewitt recalled.

"It wasn't just something that was just in our heads. To me it was plain as day cause I remember hearing a voice," officer Tyler Beddoes said. "I think it was Dewitt who said, 'We're trying. We're trying our best to get in there.'

"How do you explain that? I don't know," he said, adding that the voice didn't sound like a child.

After they flipped the car, they realized a baby was inside, her eyes fluttering slightly. The mother was already dead.

Lynn Groesbeck left her parents' home in Salem, Utah, about 10 p.m. Friday and was en route to her Springville home near Provo when the crash occurred,

family members told police. The Utah Highway Patrol is assisting in the accident investigation to determine why the vehicle left the road.

The deceased woman had been enrolled at Provo College with a goal of becoming a medical assistant.