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Woman Rescued From Sinking Car After Driving Into Harbour
- Published_at:2015-02-17
- Category:News & Politics
- Channel:Shazzy Mazzy AR1
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- description: A New Zealand woman was rescued by police in the nick of time after her car plunged into Waitemata Harbour in Auckland. The BMW went flying over the ferry terminal carpark wall just after 3pm today; luckily two police officers and a bystander, Erwin Kampos, were on the scene. "I saw the BMW … it just went straight down," Mr Kampos told the media. "The two police officers smashed the back windscreen, I tried to smash the side, and the sides didn't want to break. "They were running out of time because the water was filling up." At that point, having not been able to get the doors open, one of the officers managed to smash the rear window with a rock – he had tried using his truncheon, but to no avail. "(The officer) smashed the back window and dragged the lady out and dragged her up to safety," Mr Kampos said. "No good just leaving somebody there." Detective Sergeant Callum McNeill said the woman was in shock and has a "few cuts and bruises, and is lucky to be alive. Police are yet to determine what caused the woman to drive off the pier. The incredible moment police smashed their way into a woman's sinking BMW with a rock and dragged her to safety seconds before she ran out of air after she drove off a pier A very lucky woman was saved by two policemen when her BMW rapidly sank into Waitemata Harbour in Auckland The extremely distraught woman was squashed against the rear window as the front of the car quickly sank With only minutes to spare, a police officer attempts to smash one of the car windows with a baton with no luck When another officer managed to shatter the rear window of the car with a rock that he was passed from the water The officers carried the woman to safety just in the nick of time before the car sank to the harbour floor A woman is extremely lucky to be alive after her car drove off a rock wall of a car park into a harbour and immediately began sinking at a frightening speed. The petrified woman was squashed up against the rear window as the front end of the BMW was rapidly submerging into the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland at 3pm on Tuesday. Fortunately witnesses called emergency services as quick-thinking policemen arrived and sprung straight into action by jumping into the water. The officers and a bystander couldn't open the doors so one officer attempted to smash the window with a baton with no luck. Once it became clear that it was not going to penetrate through the glass another officer was handed a rock and managed to shatter the rear window. The relieved woman was then pulled to safety by the two heroic policemen. Detective Sergeant Callum McNeill said police were still trying to work out how the bizarre incident occurred. He said the woman, who was naturally in shock, got away with just a 'few cuts and bruises and is lucky to be alive,' stuff.co.nz reported. Erwin Kampos saw the BMW go straight into the drink after driving over the Northcote Point Ferry Terminal's car park rock wall while he was fishing and immediately went into the water to attempt to smash the window. 'The two police officers smashed the back windscreen, I tried to smash the sides and they didn't want to break. We were running out of time because the vehicle was filling up,' he said. Another witness saw the car was 'filling up fast' and said the officers got to the woman 'just in the nick of time.'
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