Man forced to choose between saving wife or son

A DISTRAUGHT husband told how he had to abandon a bid to rescue his teenage son to save his wife from drowning in a murky river.

Stacy Horton saved his wife Vanessa, 35, as their son Silva, 13, drowned in the Whanganui River on New Zealand’s North Island after her car plunged into the river on Saturday night.

Mr Horton said hearrived at the crash scene less than two minutes after the accident to hear his wife screaming in the darkness and to see his son’s friend and the family dog scrambling up the bank.