A dog drowned and a woman was saved by a good Samaritan after a vehicle crashed into a pond in the Isles of Porto Vista in Cape Coral Monday evening.
According to Cape Coral police, an older woman drove from a parking spot into a lake inside the Isles of Porto Vista community, fully submerging the car.
A neighbor heard calls for help and jumped into the pond, swimming over to help the woman back to shore. CCPD says the woman told the man, Michael Gordon, that she had a dog in the vehicle.
"I saw a bunch of bubbles come up where the car was and I started just to dive down. That was the deciding factor," Gordon said. "There was no hesitation in my mind, I had to just go…"
The Cape Coral Fire Department Dive Team responded with a rescue swimmer in attempt to locate the car and the dog.
One dog was found dead inside the car, according to reports.
The woman was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
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