MARGATE, FLA. (WSVN) - A 79-year-old man is expected to be okay after he hit the gas on his car and ended up inside his swimming pool.
Margate Police and Fire Rescue responded to the scene, located in the area of 1400 NW 62nd Terrace, just after 12:15 p.m.
According to Kurtz Methelus, his grandfather was behind the wheel when he hit the gas, going through a privacy fence, the pool screen and into the pool.
“The car just got shipped in at 11 a.m. We were supposed to go out, I was backing up my car right here and I was going to have his car pull in. I jumped to the side because I saw the car coming so he would’ve ran me over if I didn’t move,” said Methelus.
The 79-year-old man, who suffers from Dementia, was pulled from the pool by other family members and is expected to be okay. Methelus went to the hospital to get his leg checked out but luckily had no fractures from the incident.
The Mercedes that submerged into the pool had just arrived from New York and was expected to be shipped to Haiti.
7Skyforce hovered over the scene, where a vehicle was seen in a residential swimming pool with damage around the pool area.
The grandfather said he doesn’t quite understand what happened.
“I told you I really don’t know, only God knows, I can’t explain this,” said Jacques Dieudonne.
The daughter of Dieudonne said she can’t explain how that happened.
“My son called me and that’s when, I don’t know, I can’t explain anything because I wasn’t there,” said Anne Dieudonne.
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