MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A man is thankful to be alive after his car crashed through a home's fence Friday in southwest Miami-Dade County and plunged into a swimming pool.
"It came through that, and of course it went all the way and then it flipped and the wheels were up," homeowner Adolfo Garcia said.
Police said the driver of the Mazda sedan collided with another car and the impact sent the sedan flying through the fence and into the backyard pool of the home on Southwest 63rd Avenue and 33rd Street.
"I'm speechless right now," the driver, Marc Herrera, said.
Herrera told local 10 News that his wife and two children were in the car.
"I don't know, she missed the stop and everything happened in seconds," he said.
Garcia said he is still shaken up about the crash, but is thankful that it wasn't any worse.
"If it had been a couple of hours later I might have been in the pool," Garcia said.
The story could have been worse for the Herrera family as well, if not for a good Samaritan who stepped in to help pull the family out of the sinking car.
Authorities said no one was injured in the crash.
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