Tesla ends up in California pool, family of 3 rescued
Two good Samaritans rescued a 4-year-old boy, his mother and his grandmother after their Tesla crashed through a wall and fell into a backyard pool in Pasadena on Tuesday, Jan. 10.
While firefighters checked the child at the scene out of an abundance of caution, no one was hospitalized, city spokeswoman Lisa Derderian said.
The crash happened around 9 a.m. in Pasadena’s South Arroyo neighborhood. The Tesla was apparently pulling into a parking space in the lot of Pacific Oaks Children’s School when the driver accidentally stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake, and the car smashed through a masonry wall separating the parking lot from the yard of a home that fronts on Arroyo Boulevard. The swimming pool is right on the other side of the wall.
PFD and PPD are on scene 700 blk. west California Blvd. A Tesla driver hit the accelerator instead of the brake, drove through a wall and into a pool. Three occupants in vehicle including a child. Good samaritans jumped into the pool and rescued the occupants. @PasadenaGov pic.twitter.com/euHlfLGfrz
— Pasadena Fire Dept. (@PasadenaFD) January 10, 2023
It was raining at the time, Derderian said.
Two staffers from the preschool — reportedly a teacher and a maintenance man — came to the aid of the driver and the passengers, jumping into the pool and pulling them out, Derderian said.
Derderian said the residents of the house were not home at the time of the crash.
A tow truck removed the car from the pool.