Woman survives car crash but dies in freak accident moments later seeking help
A woman survived a car crash but mysteriously went missing and was found dead at the bottom of a deep well.
Shirley Obert, 67, got into a car accident on Saturday morning while wearing a Chick-fil-A uniform red shirt and black pants.
Amid an active search for her, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office posted on Facebook that she was last seen around Abercrombie and Oxford Road in Georgia.
A GPS Aviation Unit as well as the Department of Natural Resources joined in the search in the county near Atlanta.
On Sunday afternoon, the sheriff’s office provided a tragic update stating that they located Obert.
‘It is not the outcome that we were hoping for,’ wrote the agency.
‘She was found deceased at the bottom of a deep well that was surrounded by very thick brush, near where her car was found.’
A GoFundMe page for her states that ‘she was found deceased in a deep, unmarked well that was covered in thick brush nearby the area where her car went off the road’.
Images from the scene showed rescue crews gathered around a hole in a wooded area, with one man wearing a helmet getting hoisted down.
It appeared that Obert had ‘been trying to go for help when this accident occurred’, added the sheriff’s office.
‘This appears to be a tragic accident,’ wrote the agency.
‘Please keep her family and her co-workers in your thoughts and prayers.’
Anyone with information on Obert’s death is urged to contact the sheriff’s department.
Obert was a ‘devoted Christian, wife, mother, and friend to many’, according to the GoFundMe page.
She is survived by her husband, whom she was the sole provider for, four sons and a daughter. She did not have life insurance for her husband.
The GoFundMe had raised more than $7,700 as of Monday evening.
Obert died a few months after a grandmother is believed to have fallen into a sinkhole after parking her car to look for her cat in Pennsylvania.
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