NORTH PLATTE - No major injuries were reported when a driver drove her car into a canal in Lincoln County at 3:30 p.m. Thursday.

The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office says Ashley Harvey was driving a GMC Terrain seven miles west and three miles south of North Platte, near the intersection of Wagon Trail Road and Nebraska Public Power District Canal Road, when she fell asleep at the wheel. Harvey told authorities when she woke up, her vehicle was going down a bank into the canal. She quickly went to the back seat where her 14-month-old son was, broke out the back window and got her and her son to the roof of the vehicle. 

While floating on top of the vehicle, Harvey called 911. At the same time, Harvey's husband Dillon rushed to the scene after receiving a notification from the vehicle that it had been involved in a crash. Dillon reported the vehicle was fully going under water and his wife leaped toward the shore with her son and were pulled safely to shore. 

Both victims were examined by EMS. It was determined that the only injury to either of them was a scratch on the boy’s forehead. The dive teams worked with Al’s Towing of Hershey to remove the GMC Terrain from the canal. 

Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, the Nebraska State Patrol, EMS, the North Platte Dive Team and the Sutherland Dive Team responded to the scene.