HAWTHORNE – The body of a woman whose vehicle entered the Hudson River from a boat ramp in a Town of Cortlandt park off Riverview Avenue on Friday, has been recovered.
The Westchester County Police Marine Unit and Yorktown Heights Fire Department dive team recovered the body of a woman in her 30s. Her name was not immediately made public.
The circumstances of the incident are under investigation by county police detectives.
Police were called to the area at 12:45 p.m. after receiving reports of a car driving into the river and becoming submerged.
The vehicle had drifted from where it initially entered the water and was located nearby in about 10 feet of water.
Dive team members removed the woman from the car, which remained in the river but was to be removed later.
The Westchester County Medical Examiner’s Office will determine the cause of the woman’s death.
Assisting at the scene were the State Police and the Verplanck, Montrose and Croton-on-Hudson fire departments.
