Officers Rescue Woman Trapped In SUV From Alligator-Infested Lake
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SUGAR LAND, Texas (CBS) -- Police officers in Texas jumped into an alligator-infested lake to rescue a woman trapped in her SUV.
Police body cam captured the dramatic rescue.
An officer smashed the windows of the woman's car to get her out.
"Witnesses called 911 just before 6:30 a.m. and said a vehicle traveling at a high rate-of-speed jumped a curb near the intersection of Meadowcroft Boulevard and Westcott Avenue, accelerated off an embankment and ended up several hundred feet offshore," Sugar Land Police Department said in a Facebook post.
The lake in the Houston suburb of Sugar Land is known to be swarming with not just alligators, but also snakes.
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The driver, who was not injured, told police she fell asleep behind the wheel.
One officer was treated for minor cuts.