{"id":221438,"date":"2026-04-07T02:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/221438\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T02:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:42:07","slug":"deputies-rescue-florida-woman-trapped-in-submerged-car-after-crash-into-retention-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/221438\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputies rescue Florida woman trapped in submerged car after crash into retention pond"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A Florida woman found herself in a frightening situation after her vehicle drove off a runway and into a retention pond on Sunday. <\/p>\n

The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office<\/a> says a little after 9 p.m., 911 dispatchers received a phone call from a frantic woman who said she had lost control of her vehicle, causing it to enter a retention pond at 70th and Hartford Street. The driver had found herself trapped in the vehicle as it rapidly began to fill with water. <\/p>\n

“Do you need police, fire or medical?” the dispatcher can be heard asking over the phone. <\/p>\n

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The woman is heard on the phone, telling the dispatcher she needs both and that she was in the lake. <\/p>\n

“I’m going to drown. I don’t know how to swim,” the woman says. “It’s filling up with water.”<\/p>\n

The sheriff’s office says deputies arrived within minutes and immediately entered the water. HCSO says deputies broke the window and pulled the driver through a submerged vehicle, bringing her to shore.<\/p>\n

Body camera released by HCSO shows deputies rushing to the scene and using a yellow rope to hoist the woman out of the water. <\/p>\n

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The woman sustained minor injuries and her vehicle was removed from the retention pond. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A Florida woman found herself in a frightening situation after her vehicle drove off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-221438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}