Video shows SUV driver leaving car wash, plunging car accidentally into New Jersey river The video

This car wash is too too too near the river.




https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/video-shows-suv-driver-leaving-car-wash-plunging-car-accidentally-n1030706

A 64-year-old driver of an SUV mistakenly hit the gas instead of the brake when pulling out of a car wash in Hackensack, New Jersey, and plunged into a river.

A bystander, Oriolis Ran, 41, rushed into the water and helped to pull the driver, Evelyn Asperilla, and her passenger, Carla Asperilla, 27, out of the 2002 Mercedes SUV in the Hackensack River, Hackensack police said. Hackensack is about 15 miles from Midtown Manhattan.

The incident at the Spotless Car Wash parking lot before noon on Tuesday was captured on surveillance video.

The video shows two car wash workers in the parking lot as the car careens toward them, almost hits a fence with an arrow pointing to an exit and then speeds up, but maneuvers between them as they dodge out of the way.

When the car drops into the water, the two workers and two others run over.