CLARKSVILLE, Tenn.-(CLARKSVILLENOW) Clarksville police removed a submerged 1983 Dodge pickup from the Cumberland River at 10 a.m. July 17, 2017.

The vehicle had jumped out of gear and rolled down an embankment into the river on July 16 around 9:15 pm.

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Photos by Jim Knoll, CPD

The owner of the vehicle had finished working at Freedom Point and was reversing out of a parking slot when his pickup hit some sort of resistance and would not move.

The driver put the vehicle in park and got out to see what was preventing it from moving, at which point, the vehicle started to roll forward down the hill. The vehicle rolled down the hill into water, approximately 10 ft in depth, and sunk.

Due to the vehicle being totally submerged, decision was made to wait until daylight hours to remove the vehicle from the water.

Divers went into the water and connected a tow hook to the submerged vehicle and the pickup was removed from the water.