BROCKTON, Mass. (WHDH) – Two women were rescued from their car after it crashed into a creek in Brockton on Tuesday.
Emergency crews responded to the scene to find a gray-colored sedan in Salisbury Brook in a residential neighborhood. Rosemarie Giovanniello, 80, said she and her 68-year-old daughter were in the car when she hit the gas pedal instead of the brake, sending the car backwards. She said she hit the brake but could not stop.
“All of a sudden that thing went like a bat out of hell,” said Giovanniello.
A neighbor who saw the crash called 911. Giovanniello and her daughter were rescued by EMTs and treated at the scene before being taken to the hospital. She said at the hospital, what she had been through finally hit her.
“At first, it didn’t scare me. Then it scared the living daylights out of me and I couldn’t stop shaking,” said Giovanniello.
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