As of Sunday evening, 18-month-old Lily Groesbeck was listed in stable but critical condition at a hospital in Salt Lake City, but people are mostly amazed that she is alive.
On Friday night at about 10:30, investigators say, the toddler's mother, Lynn Groesbeck, somehow lost control of her car and drove it into the Spanish Fork river, about 50 miles south of Salt Lake City. When a fisherman discovered the upside-down car at about 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Lynn Groesbeck, 25, was dead but Lily was alive, hanging upside-down in her car seat above the frigid water.
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