WHEN BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA, SHERIFF’S deputies responded to a suspicious car call early Thursday morning, they found a car parked in front of an apartment building with the motor running. A man, who it was later learned lived in the apartment, was sound asleep in the front seat.
When the deputies rapped on the window to wake him, he was startled and instinctively put the gear into Drive and started forward, slowly. As the car climbed the curb and started across a playground, the deputies ran alongside the car telling the man to stop. Instead, he mashed down on the accelerator and sped forward, crashing through a fence and driving into another apartment complex’s swimming pool.
Tire tracks and a hole in the fence display the car’s
path into the swimming pool. (CBS News)
The deputies jumped into the pool and broke out a window, then dragged the confused man to safety. Charles Marckenson, 28, is facing several traffic charges pending on a return of toxicology reports on his blood tests.
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