Video shows teen saving driver who accidentally drove SUV into water

A 17-calendar year-old boy is currently being celebrated as a hero after diving into a Very long Island bay to conserve a female whose SUV plunged into the water when she unintentionally strike the gasoline pedal rather of the brake on Tuesday. 

The Suffolk County Law enforcement Department stated Mia Samolinski, 18, had stepped on the wrong pedal in her Subaru Outback as she was leaving a South Ocean Avenue parking ton adjacent to Patchogue Bay shortly soon after 10 p.m. Tuesday night.

In surveillance video clip, the automobile can be viewed plunging straight into the drinking water, spurring Anthony Zhongor into motion.

“I read a substantial splash and noticed everyone jogging toward the dock. I really do not know what occurred,” Zhongor advised NBC New York. 

A crowd could be viewed accumulating close to as the incident unfolded. Footage demonstrates Zhongor dive into the water.

In accordance to police, he managed to open the driver’s aspect doorway of the motor vehicle and get Samolinski out and to a close by dock. 

“Dying, becoming trapped is a person of my worst fears, so I couldn’t imagine somebody heading through that correct in front of me,” the teenager mentioned. 

Neither Samolinski nor her rescuer had been wounded in the incident. 

The motor vehicle was ultimately pulled from the bay with a weighty responsibility wrecker.

In accordance to NBC New York, Samolinski’s father achieved with Zhongor on Wednesday and thanked him for his bravery.