By Olivia Lloyd
The Charlotte Observer
Two 18-year-olds called 911 from a sinking car after accidentally crashing into a Florida pond.
Body-worn camera footage shared on social media Dec. 4 by the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office shows the rescue.
At about 5 a.m. Nov. 30, emergency operators got a call from two young women saying they had just crashed into a body of water in St. Augustine.
“Please hurry up, there’s water coming in the car,” one of the women is heard telling the 911 operator.
First responders arrived at the scene, where the front of the white car had mostly disappeared under the water. Deputies told the women they needed to take their seatbelts off and climb out the windows of the car.
Once they were barely out of the car, with one of the women still seen clinging to the back wheel, the vehicle suddenly nose-dived further and completely submerged, sinking 20 feet to the bottom of the pond, deputies said.
One of the women said she couldn’t swim, and Deputy Jayde Glines got in the water to help them to the bank.
Both 18-year-olds were taken to a hospital as a precaution, and crews later pulled the vehicle out of the pond, according to the sheriff’s office.
St. Augustine is in northeast Florida, about a 40-mile drive south from Jacksonville.
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