FALLSBURG, N.Y. (AP) — Members of an upstate New York family are being credited with saving a woman's life after the car she was riding in landed upside down in a Catskills creek after sliding off an icy road.

Police in the Sullivan County town of Fallsburg say 72-year-old Vincent Mayers was driving Monday afternoon when his car crashed and landed on its roof in a roadside creek.

The Times Herald-Record of Middletown (http://bit.ly/2ho5fpL ) reports three members of the Beatty family came upon the crash scene and found that the heads of Mayers and his 57-year-old wife Harriet were underwater.

Christopher Beatty used a knife to cut her out of her seat belt and pulled her to safety with the help of his relatives. He then pulled her husband free, but he died.

Harriet Mayers was listed in stable condition at a hospital.

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Information from: The Times Herald-Record, http://www.th-record.com

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