Man tried to save dog after truck sank in Toms River, relative says - NJ.com
PINE BEACH — The man whose pickup truck sank in the Toms River after he drove out onto the ice tried to save his dog as the vehicle was slipping into the frigid water, his relatives said. The dog's owner, Andrew Mayer, struggled to save the 2-year-old boxer-lab named Rolo until he was submerged up to his neck in the freezing water, said Mayer's cousin, Donna Jung. Mayer's friends had to pull him from the water after his 1989 blue and gray Mazda B2200 pickup broke through the ice shortly after midnight on Sunday, Jung said. "Andy jumped on the roof of the truck to get back in as the truck was going under the ice," Jung said. Rolo was not with Mayer and his friend Daniel Jolly as they did donuts in the truck on the iced-over river off the shore of Pine Beach, Jung and Morris said. In the meantime, Mayer left his empty truck, still on the ice, running, Jung and Morris said. After a while, they heard police sirens and decided to get the truck off the ice, Jung said. She said that's when Rolo followed Mayer from shore and into the truck. Almost immediately after getting into the truck, Mayer heard two loud bangs, which he now thinks was the ice, melting from the heat of his vehicle, cracking under the weight of the truck, Jung said. Source: www.nj.com
