Woman, 77, dies after being rescued from car that rolled into Schuylkill River: police

LOWER MERION, Pa. - A woman was pulled from the Schuylkill River after police say a car she was in rolled into the water Tuesday morning in Montgomery County.

Emergency crews responded to Righter's Ferry Road around 9 a.m. after investigators say the car left a gym parking lot and rolled over a hill into the river.

The car rolled from the parking lot at AFC Fitness down the rocky embankment into the Schuylkill River.

Two Lower Merion Police officers, a Union Fire Company firefighter, and a trainer from AFC Fitness got into the water and pulled a77-year-old woman out of the SUV.

The woman was taken to Lankenau Hospital where police say she later died.

The first responders taken to the hospital for evaluation were released Tuesday afternoon, officials tell FOX 29.

"Nine o’clock, we were pulling into the gym and there were all these emergency vehicles behind me and I was impressed with the amount of them," said Ed Ruback, a regular at AFC Fitness in Bala Cynwyd. "My first thought was, ‘Oh God, I hope it’s not an active shooter.’"

Ruback says he believes the 77-year-old woman was also a regular at the gym.