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91-year-old who backed into pool is rescued via sunroof, Massachusetts neighbor says

Springfield Fire Department

A 91-year-old woman accidentally backed her car across a street, between two houses, through a wooden fence and into a neighbor’s swimming pool about 9:30 a.m. Sunday, WBZ reported.

Another neighbor says he helped the woman, who was unhurt, escape the partly submerged 2003 Mercury Sable through the sunroof, WWLP reported.

Firefighters in Springfield, Massachusetts, posted a photo of the car in the pool to Twitter. The vehicle appeared to have backed partway across the pool, submerging its front end.

Springfield, population 154,000, is a city along the Connecticut River in western Massachusetts.

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Don Sweeney
The Sacramento Bee
Don Sweeney has been a newspaper reporter and editor in California for more than 35 years. He is a service reporter based at The Sacramento Bee.
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