A Florida driver lost control of his pickup truck and swerved into a canal last week. However, by the time sheriff’s deputies arrived to the scene of the crash, they found the driver had already been rescued.
Friends Tony Cooper and Elijah Hodge, both 13 years old, were eating at a restaurant in Broward County off McNab Road when they saw a Toyota truck crash into a nearby water embankment. A witness told WSVN she heard the crash and turned around the see the pickup truck sinking into the water.
However, she said she saw two kids running over to the vehicle. Tony and Elijah told the outlet they immediately jumped out of their seats and sprinted across the Dollar Tree parking lot toward the vehicle.
“We rushed and took off our shoes and stuff. We literally jumped on the hood and then we took off the seat belt and then we pulled them out. I started screaming at him because he was heavy while he was in the car. We [were] screaming, he woke up, we helped him get out of the car and after that, he was on the hood and then we pulled him onto the grass,” Tony told WSVN.
Officials from the Broward County Sheriff’s Office said by the time emergency responders got to the scene they found the driver “managed to get out of the vehicle and swim onto the embankment.”
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