{"id":225277,"date":"2026-04-09T19:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/225277\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T19:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:50:10","slug":"video-police-rescue-elderly-couple-from-submerged-car-in-port-st-lucie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/225277\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Police rescue elderly couple from submerged car in Port St. Lucie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Watch as Port St. Lucie Police rescue an elderly couple from a partially submerged vehicle after a wrong turn led them into a pond amid heavy downpours across Florida on Wednesday. Both were evaluated and said to be in good health.<\/p>\n

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla.- Police in Port St. Lucie, Florida<\/a>, rescued an elderly couple from a vehicle that ended up partially submerged in a pond after crashing during heavy downpours <\/a>on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Relentless rainfall has been battering Florida\u2019<\/a>s Atlantic Coast, dropping several inches across the eastern half of the state and raising the potential for flash flooding<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Port St. Lucie Police officers rescue an elderly couple from a vehicle that became partially submerged in a pond after crashing during heavy downpours on April 8.<\/p>\n

Early Wednesday morning, the Port St. Lucie<\/a> Police Department responded to a crash near E. Caribbean Drive and Cam De Entrada, where a vehicle carrying two elderly passengers ended up submerged in a pond.<\/p>\n

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Video shows the car covered up to the base of the windshield<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Port St. Lucie Police officers rescue an elderly couple from a vehicle that became partially submerged in a pond after crashing during heavy downpours on April 8.<\/p>\n

(Port St. Lucie Police Department \/ Facebook)<\/p>\n

According to local news reports, the elderly woman made a wrong turn and tried to reverse when the vehicle slid into the pond.<\/p>\n

Once on scene, officers immediately waded into the water<\/a> and safely pulled the occupants from the submerged vehicle. Footage captures their heroic efforts as each individual is carefully brought to safety.<\/p>\n

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Officers carefully guide the elderly couple individually to the shore.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(Port St. Lucie Police Department \/ Facebook)<\/p>\n

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According to the police department, the couple was medically evaluated and transported to the hospital as a precaution and are in good health.<\/p>\n

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In a Facebook post about the incident, officers reminded the public that driving carefully is especially important in hazardous weather<\/a> conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch as Port St. Lucie Police rescue an elderly couple from a partially submerged vehicle after a wrong…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[28,171,173,172,49081,504,512,82689,6977,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-225277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-port-st-lucie","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","11":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","12":"tag-precipitation","13":"tag-safety","14":"tag-southeast","15":"tag-stay22","16":"tag-thunderstorms","17":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225277","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=225277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}