The death of a woman whose SUV was driven into a pond at a Glastonbury golf course where she was found dead nearby on a cart path last month has been ruled an accident.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said an autopsy showed 50-year-old Nailia Vodovskaia of Glastonbury died of hypothermia due to exposure to cold temperatures with contributing conditions of acute and chronic alcohol use and hypertensive cardiovascular disease.
According to the Glastonbury Police Department, emergency crews responded to the Glastonbury Hills Country Club on Country Club Road just after 9 a.m. on Dec. 28 after receiving the report of a vehicle that had gone into a pond at the course. Police found an unoccupied Acura SUV partially submerged in the water.
Vodovskaia was found dead nearby on a cart path, police said.
A preliminary investigation determined that Vodovskaia’s SUV was driven onto the course and then into the pond. Police at the time said the incident was being investigated as an untimely death.
A spokesperson for the police department did not immediately respond Thursday to a request for an update on the investigation.
