Jaipur, Nov. 27 -- A family of three narrowly escaped death on Tuesday evening after their car slipped off an overbridge into a pond in Dungarpur district, after a 38-year-old local woman decided to dive into the pond after them and managed to rescue the entire family. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Surta Parmar said she first heard the heavy thud of a vehicle slamming into the surface of the water, followed by the outcry of a crowd and the wailing of an infant, after the car carrying Dharmesh Yadav, engaged as a BLO under the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR), his wife Shilpa Yadav and their infant son Drish slipped off the overbridge near her home in Dharmatala village at around 9 am. The family were on their way to a wedding in Banswara from their home in Dungarpur's Balaji Nagar. "I heard the car falling into the pond and the outcry that followed. When I saw the car, it had almost completely sunk into the water, and I could hear the shrill cry of a baby," said Parmar, who is employed as an anganwadi worker in the district. Parmar, who lives barely 200 metres from the pond, dived into the water in a desperate attempt to save the family. Meanwhile, her 15-year-old daughter Ayushi fetched a pile of rope from their house to help the rescue attempt, she said. "When I reached the car, the windows were up and the doors locked. I broke the window with a rod and first rescued the baby. Then I tied the rope around the man's body and dragged him out of the car," she said, adding that up unti this point, she was still unaware of the presence of a woman in the car. "Shilpa was stuck in the back seat. A local boy helped me rescue her as well after I realised she was also there," said Parmar, adding that the sight of a part of Shilpa's floating saree alerted her to the woman's predicament. According to Dinesh Yadav, Shilpa Yadav's uncle, the accident had drawn a sizable crowd around the pond. "But none dared to step forward to save them. Without Surta, we would have lost my niece and her family," he said. Surta said she also managed to rescue a pile of enumeration forms that Dharmesh kept in the car for his work, along with a laptop and three mobile phones, one of which she used to contact one of the family's relatives and also arrange for an ambulance to rush them to a nearby hospital. Officials said Shilpa and Dharmesh both sustained multiple fractures and were referred to a hospital in Udaipur for better treatment, adding that the baby was discharged after primary treatment. "My father left me, my two siblings, and my mother when I was only a month old. I lost my mother when I was ten years old. She had cancer. For me, there was no bravery in what I did. What would that baby do without his parents? How could I have stopped myself even after hearing him cry?" Surta said....