That’s Springfield, Illinois ABC affiliate News Channel 20 TV reporter Jake Emerson on scene with an unrelated report as a truck rolls down the boat ramp and sinks into Lake Springfield on Friday.
Later that day Emerson filed a text article on his station’s website describing the incident with a bizarre and almost sort of disconcerting impersonality: “A white GMC truck slipped off the Spaulding Dam boat launch into Lake Springfield at 6:20 p.m. on Thursday, July 29. No one was inside the vehicle at the time it sank, and no injuries were reported. The owner of the vehicle was in the process of taking a boat onto the lake with a woman and a boy when the incident occurred. The Sangamon County Rescue Squad said on their Facebook page on Friday, July 30: ‘Last night, SCRS responded to Spaulding Dam boat launch at Lake Springfield to assist with the recovery of a submerged vehicle. No injuries were reported with this incident.'”