A lifeguard at a community aquatics center in Connecticut rescued a man who drove his Tesla into the pool while trying to park the vehicle.
Mike D'urso told News 12 that he was setting up umbrellas with his co-workers at the public pool they worked at when "all of a sudden we hear this loud crash."
"We turned around, and there's just a Tesla sitting in the middle of our pool," D'urso said. "I'm just thinking, this has got to be some type of training exercise or something."
D'urso said he jumped into the pool, with officers from the New Canaan Police Department joining him in the water soon after.
The man was still conscious when D'urso was able to reach him, and the only major concern was removing him from the water before the vehicle sunk enough to submerge his head.
The group of rescuers broke one of the Tesla's windows and removed the driver.
"I've never seen anything like this here in the town," said John Howe, director of New Canaan Parks and Rec. "A lot of little things, but this definitely takes the cake."
