'You gotta get out': Heroes rescue screaming woman trapped in sinking car
A woman was rescued from her sinking car after she accidentally drove into a pond in the US.
A passerby managed to swim out to the SUV and opened its rear door just seconds before it plummeted to the bottom of Spy Pond in Arlington, Massachusetts.
The 68-year-old driver can be seen struggling to open her front door and escape from her Ford Edge car.
“She was very, very scared and had taken in water,” Dan Frazier, who swam out to rescue the woman, told CBS.
“She knew she was dying. I mean, she just figured this was it.”
Video of the dramatic rescue shows the car just moments after it was driven into the lake as onlookers can be heard screaming: “You gotta get out”.
That was when Mr Frazier and Kenneth Chapman, another man who had been out walking by the pond and who is visiting the US from Australia, jump into the water to begin their rescue.
One of them makes it to the car and opens its back door, giving the woman a route to escape.
That moved caused water to rush into the vehicle, meaning just moments later it became completely submerged.
The man near the car can be heard shouting: “I lost her”.
However, miraculously, the woman then appears at the moment Mr Frazier arrives with a cushion for her to use as a flotation aid.
The woman was treated for mild hypothermia but was not seriously hurt.
Police said she was trying to park her car when she accidentally mounted a kerb and slid into the lake.
