Sirens, cell phone help police find injured woman

WALTON HILLS, Ohio (AP) -- Police sounded their sirens so a disoriented, injured woman on her cell phone could help them find her car that had dropped 20 feet into a soggy ravine.
Denise Clarish, 48, spent about 12 hours in the car after going off a road near her home Thursday night. She had a cut on her face and a broken leg but was in satisfactory condition at MetroHealth Medical Center, said Walton Hills police Lt. Kenn Thellmann.
A friend told police that Clarish left a restaurant sometime after 8:30 p.m. Thursday. Neighbors on her street reported a loud crash about 10 p.m. but saw nothing unusual.
The woman finally answered her cell phone when her friend called Friday morning, then police called her, too. Thellmann said the woman could not explain her location.
Police cruisers in her suburban Cleveland neighborhood used their sirens, and Thellmann asked the woman to tell him when she heard one. He said the car had dropped down an embankment into a shallow creek about 100 yards from her home.
Clarish was ticketed for failure to control her car, he said.