Woman Dies After Jeep Falls Through Ice on Lake Mahopac

The Jeep was found fully submerged about 30 yards off the shore of East Lake Boulevard. Photo by Mahopac Volunteer Fire Department.

A Somers woman has died after she drove her Jeep on the ice on Lake Mahopac and it fell through water that wasn’t fully frozen.

According to the Carmel Police Department, at about 5:45 p.m. March 9, the office received multiple calls reporting a Jeep driving on Lake Mahopac.

CPD officers and Putnam County sheriff’s deputies who responded along East Lake Boulevard were flagged down by passers-by who notified them that after the driver entered the lake from Swan Cove and drove around erratically for a bit, the vehicle broke through the ice and plunged into the water.

It was found fully submerged about 30 yards off the shore, north of the St. John’s prayer garden.

The Mahopac Falls and Yorktown Heights volunteer fire department dive teams were called to the scene, and the sole occupant/driver of the vehicle was recovered unresponsive. She was later identified as a 55-year-old female from Somers.

Emergency lifesaving measures were performed by Mahopac Volunteer Fire Department and Carmel EMS units enroute to Putnam Hospital in Carmel, where the woman later died.

Identification of the driver is pending family notifications.

This incident remains under investigation by CPD detectives.