Full presser: Southfield police provide update, share video of family’s rescue from vehicle

Police in Southfield has shared more detail, including scene video, about the arduous rescue of two young children and their parents from a vehicle after it veered off the road and crashed into a steep embankment. The single-vehicle crash occurred around 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 5, on Simmons Avenue near Berg Road. According to Southfield Police Chief Elvin Barren, preliminary investigations indicate that the family’s 2015 Ford Explorer crashed through a metal guardrail before coming to rest roughly 30 feet below the roadway. Bodycam video shared from the scene shows first responders struggling to climb down the steep embankment to reach the vehicle. The driver — a 39-year-old Southfield woman who police said does not have a valid Michigan driver’s license — and her 63-year-old husband, were both found unresponsive in the SUV, police said. Officers also located a 4-year-old boy and 2-year-old in the back seat, who were both conscious but unsecured.