ICYMI: Two Men Rescued From Sinking Car

In case you missed it, here's a story that appeared earlier this week in Long Beach Patch:

ISLAND PARK, NY - Two men were rescued after a driver drove a car into Broad Channel in Island Park on Saturday night, according to Nassau Police.

A 24-year-old man was driving a 2002 Audi sedan on Warwick Boulevard at Block Lane when he hit a utility pole, causing wires to fall into the roadway shortly before 10 p.m.

The car then left the roadway, crashed into shrubbery, drove through a fence in between two homes and continued into the waterway in the back of the houses.

The responding officers, Ahmad Kessba, Anthony Albanese, Paul Maywald and Jamal Ramos, found the car 50 feet from the bulkhead in 6-foot deep water.

The driver managed to crawl out and was on top of the car while a 28-year-old passenger was trapped inside the car.

Kessba and Albanese got a 20-foot ladder and laid it onto the car’s trunk and floating dock.

Kessba then carefully crawled over the ladder to the submerging car, while the other officers held onto the ladder until he was able to reach the driver, pull him onto the ladder and then to land.

Kessba and an Island Park firefighter, who was on top of the sinking car, held the passenger's head above water so he would not drown.

After five minutes in the water, an Island Park firefighter dressed in a wetsuit and with a line swam out and helped to successfully remove the man from the car and swim back to the dock.

Nassau County Police Aviation transported the passenger, who sustained multiple fractures to the leg in addition to a shoulder injury, to a local hospital.

The Island Park Fire Department transported the driver, who sustained abrasions, to a local hospital for evaluation.

Detectives report no apparent criminality.