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Elderly Couple Dies After Car Crash; No Cell Service

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ANDES, N.Y. (AP) - An elderly Manhattan couple whose car became stuck near their wooded Catskills vacation home died after nine fruitless attempts to make a cellphone call for help and after the woman searched in vain for a neighbor.


State police and family members say 88-year-old Arthur Morris slid their car down an embankment 60 feet from their vacation home

on May 3 in Andes, 115 miles northwest of Manhattan. Family members told the New York Daily News (http://nydn.us/J2Nwmh) that Morris tried to get out but became wedged between the tilted car and the ground and was asphyxiated.

His wife, 89-year-old Madeleine, walked to a neighbor's empty house and died of exposure after a rainy night under a tarp. Cell service is spotty in the rural area.