Cato, N.Y. \u2014 New York State Police released body-worn camera footage showing a trooper rescuing a man trapped inside a sinking vehicle at a boat launch in Cayuga County.<\/p>\n
Trooper Christopher Cady responded to Cross Lake Marina in the town of Cato around 2:35 p.m. Sunday for a report of a car in the water with a man trapped inside, according to state police.<\/p>\n
Cady immediately entered the water and used a window punch to break the vehicle’s sunroof.<\/p>\n
With help from a nearby good Samaritan, Cady was able to free the man from the sinking vehicle.<\/p>\n
New York State Police bodycam footage shows Trooper Christopher Cady and a good Samaritan rescuing a man trapped inside a sinking vehicle at Cross Lake Marina in the town of Cato, Cayuga County, on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026. (Video provided by NYSP)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Police did not provide additional details about the circumstances that caused the vehicle to enter the water or the rescued man’s condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cato, N.Y. \u2014 New York State Police released body-worn camera footage showing a trooper rescuing a man trapped…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-368316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}