Mount Pleasant Police officers in South Carolina pulled a trapped driver from a partially submerged vehicle after a crash into a pond, according to a local report from WCIV.
WCIV reported that officers were dispatched Saturday to the 2000 block of North Highway 17 after a vehicle went off the road and into the water. Multiple police units arrived within minutes and found the vehicle partially submerged, with the driver trapped inside.
According to the report, officers entered the pond to reach the driver. Responders broke through and extracted the driver, bringing her to shore. She was breathing at the time of the rescue, authorities said, but was not alert.
Emergency medical personnel transported the driver to a nearby hospital. An officer followed to continue the investigation and monitor her condition, WCIV reported.
Additional Charleston County rescue responders arrived after the initial rescue and confirmed there were no other occupants in the vehicle. A dive team conducted a secondary search of the pond before recovery crews removed the vehicle from the water.
The report attributed the crash to a sudden medical emergency, and Mount Pleasant Police later confirmed the driver had suffered a seizure. ThinBlueNews is limiting medical details to what was publicly reported by the source and is not naming the driver.
The rescue is another example of routine patrol work turning into a water-rescue emergency in seconds — with officers, EMS, dive-team members and recovery crews each taking a role in getting one person out of danger and checking that nobody else remained underwater.
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ThinBlueNews will update this story if Mount Pleasant Police release additional official details.