One person is dead and an 8-year-old girl is missing after an SUV flipped into a rain-swollen drainage ditch Tuesday morning and was swept away.
Sherman Police reported that a family of six was on their way from Durant to McKinney when their Chevrolet Traverse overturned into the water and drifted alongside the US-75 service road until it came to a halt near Houston St, as detailed by KXII.
While four individuals were successfully rescued, a young girl and another person remained unaccounted for. A body was found on Tuesday afternoon, and efforts are ongoing to locate the missing child, who was described as last seen in a black jacket and pink pajamas.
Searchers were out all day Tuesday and Wednesday and into Thursday morning, but Sherman Police Lt. Samuel Boyle said no sightings have been made.
“We haven’t had much luck,” Boyle said late Thursday. “We aren’t able to do much at night right now with the way the weather is.”
“There’s a lot of overgrowth, there’s a lot of still-standing water, and now we’re getting more rain which is gonna add to that,”he said.
Police paused the search at about 6 p.m. Thursday and plan to get back out at 7 Friday morning.
Investigators have not named the victims of the crash.
