Watch Florida deputies carry women to safety as car sinks into 20-foot-deep pond

From Olivia Lloyd

source The Charlotte Observer

Two 18-year-olds called 911 from a sinking car after they accidentally crashed into a pond in Florida.

Body-worn camera footage shared on social media by the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office on Dec. 4 shows the rescue.

Around 5 a.m. on Nov. 30, emergency responders received a call from two young women who said they had just fallen into a body of water in St. Augustine.

“Please hurry, water is coming into the car,” one of the women can be heard saying to the emergency call center.

First responders arrived at the scene of the accident, where most of the front of the white car had disappeared under water. Officers told the women they had to remove their seatbelts and climb out of the car’s windows.

As soon as they got out of the car, with one of the women still clinging to the rear wheel, the vehicle suddenly plunged further and became completely submerged, sinking 20 feet to the bottom of the pond, officials said.

One of the women said she couldn’t swim, and Deputy Jayde Glines got into the water to help them to shore.

Both 18-year-olds were taken to a hospital as a precaution, and emergency services later pulled the vehicle out of the pond, the sheriff’s office said.

St. Augustine is located in northeast Florida, approximately 40 miles south of Jacksonville.

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