{"id":361449,"date":"2026-08-03T12:53:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/361449\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T12:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:53:18","slug":"police-rescue-unresponsive-driver-from-sinking-vehicle-after-crash-into-florida-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/361449\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Rescue Unresponsive Driver From Sinking Vehicle After Crash Into Florida Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"

A pair of police officers in Florida leapt into a pond to rescue an unresponsive motorist whose vehicle submerged after a crash.<\/p>\n

The Clearwater Police Department said on Facebook<\/a>, Officer Jonathan Hurt and Officer Hunter Smaldone responded at around 6:34 p.m. on Thursday, July 30, to a report of a crash in which one vehicle went into a pond near the intersection of McMullen Booth Road and Enterprise Road.<\/p>\n

When Hurt and Smaldone arrived on the scene, they saw the vehicle was “quickly” becoming submerged and immediately swam out to the vehicle. They found the driver-side door locked, and tried to communicate with the driver to unlock it, but she was unresponsive.<\/p>\n

Hurt then broke the driver-side window to unlock and open the door. The officers pulled the woman out of the vehicle and brought her safely to shore.<\/p>\n

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Clearwater Police Department<\/p>\n

Due to the “murky” water, the officers could not tell if there were any passengers in the vehicle, and a Clearwater Fire and Rescue diver who had since arrived on scene confirmed there were no other occupants.<\/p>\n

Photos shared by the police department show the vehicle almost fully submerged in the pond, which is surrounded by a parking lot.<\/p>\n

The driver, a 45-year-old woman, was transported to Mease Countryside Hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n

Police said the investigation into the cause of the crash is ongoing.<\/p>\n

This story Police Rescue Unresponsive Driver From Sinking Vehicle After Crash Into Florida Pond<\/a> first appeared on National Enquirer<\/a>. Follow National Enquirer<\/a> on <\/a>Yahoo<\/a> so you don’t miss what’s coming next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pair of police officers in Florida leapt into a pond to rescue an unresponsive motorist whose vehicle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36482,28,30,29,147101,58962],"class_list":["post-361449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-clearwater-police-department","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-jonathan-hurt","tag-national-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361449","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=361449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}