Posted on 10/02/2012 3:24:05 PM PDT by rawhide
An elderly woman escaped an almost certain death after a group of strangers bravely dove into ocean waters to save her after her car crashed into the water.
The Portland Press Herald reports that 84-year-old Ursula Nixon lost control of her car, driving through two fences and submerging her blue Nissan into Maine's Portland Harbor.
"It looked like it was barreling pretty fast," Mike Wells, one of the rescuers, told the paper. "I saw it go over the edge and then water splashed up."
Katie Nelson was first in the water, climbing on top of the sinking vehicle and then through the car's rear window to pull Nixon out to safety.
"I just remember pulling myself up and looking in at her and there was water all in the front of the car and she was in the front seat," Nelson told local NBC affiliate WCSH 6. "I said, 'Hi I'm Katie,' and she's like, 'I don't want to die in here, I'm going to drown.' And I'm like, 'No, no you're not. You're going to grab my hands and we're going to pull you out.'"
In a video taken of the rescue, the car drops beneath the surface of the ocean just moments after Nixon's rescuers pull her from the vehicle.
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Wow!
My mom knows her. She walks at the local Mall in the mornings. Many senior citizens go there to walk in the mornings. One time around inside the mall is 1 mile.
She should have gone for that walk.
Good people in Maine.
Humans are still rare enough up there for each one to be valued.
Talk about ‘in the nick of time!’
She did go for a walk. I think she was coming back from visiting her recently widowed sister who lives in a place for the elderly.
I knew as soon as I read the title that this video would not be featuring anybody from the Kennedy family.
It’s amazing from the comments that most of them think you are too old to drive if you’re over 70. Many of us over 70 still work full-time and drive to work every day so we can pay for all the benefits these upstarts get from the government. I’m sure they would rather we’d just all curl up and die but it’s not going to happen so they need to get over it.
Wonder if they will feel the same way if they ever live to be 70.
I knew as soon as I read the title that this video would not be featuring anybody from the Kennedy family.
she drove her car into the ocean, it didn’t do it by itself. she’s 84 and probably shouldn’t have been driving for a long time. people need to know when to hang it up.
if i live that long and don’t have the proper coordination and/or eyesight to drive, i’ll take myself off the road. i don’t want to lose everything i’ve worked for because of an avoidable accident where god forbid someone else gets killed.
and beleive me - that water is COLD!
But this is why I came home to Maine, after a quarter century living all over the county.
People are still ‘real’ here. People are more important than things.
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