Two adults and two young children were extricated from a vehicle that crashed 30 feet below the roadway in an embankment on Sunday, July 5, 2026. (Courtesy Southfield Fire Department)
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. – Two adults and two young children were hospitalized on Sunday after their vehicle left the roadway in Southfield and ended up in a steep embankment.
Police say the single-vehicle crash happened around 3:30 p.m. on Simmons Avenue near Berg Road, leaving the occupants trapped inside approximately 30 feet below the roadway at the bottom of the embankment near the Rouge River.
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The Southfield Fire Department’s Technical Rescue Team set up a low-angle rope rescue system to haul the occupants up the embankment to reach the ambulances. (Courtesy Southfield Fire Department)
Responding officers were able to break a window to safely remove the 2-year-old and 4-year-old children from the back seat. However, the adults needed to be extricated via the jaws of life by the Fire Department’s Technical Rescue Team, which had to set up a low-angle rope rescue system to haul the occupants up the embankment to reach the ambulances.
All four occupants were successfully removed from the vehicle and transported to area hospitals with varying conditions, police said.
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