Out of control car lands in family's backyard swimming pool
HOUSTON -- A family in Texas woke up Tuesday morning to find a Dodge Charger in their backyard pool.
"What woke us up was probably the tidal wave of water hitting the back of our house," Leighanna Brownlee said.
Police said two teenage boys were speeding through the neighborhood around 4 a.m. when they lost control. The car crashed through a wooden fence and slammed into the side of the pool.
Brownlee said by the time she got dressed, the two boys were standing on the pool deck. They were not injured.
"They were pretty shaken up, and they kept saying, 'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry,'" Brownlee said. "And I got them some blankets and took them in the house."
It appears the pool kept the car from hitting the side of the house.
"It could have hit our bedroom, my side of the bed," Brownlee said.
After a dip in the freezing-cold and murky water, tow truck workers managed to haul the car out of the pool.
Neighborhood kids came by to see the damage.
"There's oil everywhere and, like, you're going to have to clean out the whole pool," Ryan Sims said. "And there's probably glass at the bottom, so it just kind of sucks."
Friends of the teen driver said he just got the car three days ago. Charges are pending.
