ANDES, N.Y. (AP) - An elderly Manhattan couple whose car became stuck near their wooded Catskills vacation home has died after making nine fruitless attempts to make a cell phone call for help and after the woman searched in vain for a neighbor.
State police and family members say 88-year-old Arthur Morris slid their car down an embankment 60 feet from their vacation home on May 3 in Andes, 115 miles northwest of Manhattan. Family members told the New York Daily News (http://nydn.us/J2Nwmh) that Arthur tried to get out but became wedged between the tilted car and the ground and was asphyxiated.
His wife, 89-year-old Madeleine, walked to an empty neighbor's house and died of exposure after a rainy night under a tarp.
Cell service is spotty in the rural area.
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