Authorities in Whitfield County, Georgia, say a body has been recovered from a car that was found submerged in water near Tibbs Bridge Road on Wednesday night.
A passerby noticed a small passenger car submerged in a nearby pond off of Tibbs Bridge Road near Creekside Grocery, Whitfield County Coroner Greg Bates said.
Bates said it took local firefighters and emergency personnel a while to get the car out of the pond Wednesday night.
Bates said it appears the driver drove off the bridge into the pond. It’s not clear when the incident occurred. He added that he couldn’t say whether the person was a man or woman because the body had been submerged for a while.
An autopsy is being done Thursday by a medical examiner with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.