Horrific footage from a home CCTV camera showed how a car smashed through the garden wall ‘like a freight train’ and flipped over, dumping its driver midair into a swimming pool.
Tense footage shows the woman lying motionless in the waist-high water,before eventually beginning to move her arms.
A man then appears from the house and goes to help her out of the pool, where she could be taken to hospital for her injuries.
Homeowner Cletis Reed told Fox5 News: ‘I figured something happened in the street and I come out to see my entire backyard destroyed.
‘I mean everything was just blown up. The patio is on the ground, the lady is floating in my pool.’
The car hit the roof of the pool house of the home in Laughlin, southern Nevada, on December 15.
Mr Reed said he had been next to the hot tub when the crash happened, so was at risk of being struck by the vehicle himself.
‘She was blessed, and I was blessed,’ he said.
‘She ended up right in the shallow end. If she went 4 feet that way, and concrete — and you know the end result of that.’
When he pulled the woman from the water, she was conscious but ‘moaning and groaning’, and he said that 15 minutes later she was able to stand up.
Crash details seen by the broadcaster say the driver, suspected to have been ‘impaired’, had been speeding, ‘failed to stop’ and then ‘hit a block wall’ before the car flipped and she was ejected.
As the car was in such a difficult position, it had to be lifted out of the property using a crane on a tow truck.
The estimated cost of repairs to the back yard is around $300,000, including draining the whole pool as it was contaminated with motor oil.
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